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RustyTruck

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COVID-19 Linked to Heart Inflammation in College Athletes

An alarmingly high proportion of the myocarditis cases (54%) were found in athletes with no clinical symptoms; only cardiac MRI identified the problem.

December 1, 2021 - A small but significant percentage of college athletes with COVID-19 develop myocarditis, a potentially dangerous inflammation of the heart muscle, that can only be seen on cardiac MRI, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Myocarditis, which typically occurs as a result of a bacterial or viral infection, can affect the heart's rhythm and ability to pump and often leaves behind lasting damage in the form of scarring to the heart muscle. It has been linked to as many as 20% of sudden deaths in young athletes. The COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns over an increased incidence of the condition in student-athletes.

For the new study, clinicians at schools in the highly competitive Big Ten athletic conference collaborated to collect data on the frequency of myocarditis in student-athletes recovering from COVID-19 infection. Conference officials had required all athletes who had COVID-19 to get a series of cardiac tests before returning to play, providing a unique opportunity for researchers to collect data on the athletes' cardiac status.





Well so much for that mild disease that you don't need to be vaccinated against.



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Edited: 12/01/2021 at 09:41 AM by RustyTruck
 12/01/2021 03:59 PM
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CurtisEflush

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Originally posted by: RustyTruck
Well so much for that mild disease that you don't need to be vaccinated against.


That does at least highlight the tradeoff... if myocarditis is serious enough to be examined and treated in college athletes, then you have to consider whether an mRNA-based vaccine which can cause myocarditis should be mandatory in someone who already had the virus and got through it without myocarditis.

You also have to question whether a socialized medical system that is focused on treating as many people as possible "efficiently" (i.e., cheaply, minimally, and in a barely-adequate manner) would ever order enough "Cadillac procedures" of a cardiac MRI to make a statistically significant study when such a small percentage of the populace has symptoms that don't get dismissed and sent home as something else.

Fortunately, this study appears to have been funded by schools in the Big Ten, which probably have their own medical schools and access to "free" on-campus MRI machines.

As a side note, I hope the study categorizes the incidence and severity of myocarditis by all the relevant factors/cormorbidities (race, weight, sex, blood type, diabetic status, genome/mutations, and sport -- esp. endurance vs speed vs strength specialties) to quantify the results accurately.
 12/01/2021 08:39 PM
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All kids get a dozen vaccines - many repeatedly - to keep the herd safe. Some will get sick and some will die. That's the way it is.

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