COVID-19 may be more likely to cause high blood pressure than the flu
美国心脏协会沙巴足球体育平台报道
COVID-19 may increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, 甚至比流感还要严重, 新的研究表明.
The analysis, published Monday in the 美国心脏协会 journal 高血压, may be the first to examine the development of and risk factors for high blood pressure in people infected with COVID-19 versus the flu, 类似的呼吸道病毒.
The findings are "alarming" and suggest more people could develop high blood pressure in the future, 造成“重大的公共卫生负担”,该研究的资深作者说, 蒂姆问. Duong说 沙巴足球体育平台发布会上. Duong is a professor of radiology and vice chair for radiology research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System in New York.
"These findings should heighten awareness to screen at-risk patients for hypertension after COVID-19 illness to enable earlier identification and treatment for hypertension-related complications, 比如心血管和肾脏疾病,他说.
Researchers analyzed health records from Montefiore Health System in New York City. The study included thousands of people with a COVID-19 infection between March 2020 and August 2022, and thousands more with influenza but not COVID-19 between January 2018 and into 2022. All the patients returned for a follow-up within three to nine months after testing positive for COVID-19 or influenza.
The analysis found that patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more than twice as likely to develop persistent hypertension than those in the hospital with the flu virus. 未住院的COVID-19患者为1人.5 times more likely to develop persistent hypertension than their flu counterparts.
People with COVID-19 at higher risk of developing high blood pressure were older, 男性, Black or had preexisting conditions such as coronary artery disease or chronic kidney disease. Persistent high blood pressure also was more common among people with COVID-19 who were treated with corticosteroid medications.
Other factors may have contributed to the development of high blood pressure, 作者说, 包括较低的社会经济地位, 隔离的影响, 社会心理压力, 体力活动减少, 大流行期间不健康饮食和体重增加.
Because the findings were limited to people who returned to Montefiore during the follow-up period, 这些人可能患有更严重的COVID-19, 作者说. Other limitations include the possibility that some patients had undiagnosed high blood pressure and uncertainty over their COVID-19 vaccine status, 哪些因素可能影响COVID-19感染的严重程度.
Researchers said future studies should determine whether heart and blood pressure complications from COVID-19 resolve on their own, or if there are other long-term effects of COVID-19 on cardiovascular health.