Cardiovascular diseases as risk factors of post-COVID syndrome: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A growing proportion of people experience incomplete recovery months after contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). These COVID-19 survivors develop a condition known as post-COVID syndrome (PCS), where COVID-19 symptoms persist for > 12 weeks after acute infection. Limited studies have investigated PCS risk factors that notably include pre-existing cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which should be examined considering the most recent PCS data. This review aims to identify CVD as a risk factor for PCS development in COVID-19 survivors.

Methods

Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) checklist, systematic literature searches were performed in the PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases from the earliest dat

SUBMITTER: Sha'ari NI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11238467 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature