Covid-19 never stops revealing its (sad) secrets to us. After long Covid and its host of associated symptoms, a new study shows that affected people considerably increase the risk of developing this blood abnormality: dyslipidemia.
Dyslipidemia is an abnormality in the composition/distribution of lipids in the blood, lipids which are on the one hand the cholesterol and on the other hand triglycerides. Dyslipidemia can thus have several faces: a level of “bad” cholesterol (LDL) that is too high, a level of “good” cholesterol (HDL) that is too low, a level of triglycerides abnormal…
Given the number of people who have contracted the virus, researchers are calling for global management of this problem and asking “establish specialized clinical monitoring protocols for patients who survive COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of developing dyslipidemia.”
A blood abnormality much more common than before the pandemic
There will definitely be a before and after Covid. For the first time, this study carried out by an Italian team on the entire population (and not just people infected with the coronavirus and hospitalized) establishes that the risk of suffering from dyslipidemia has been considerably increased since the pandemic.
Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation on November 1, 2024, the figures are clear: while one in two people were followed for dyslipidemia before 2020 and therefore the Covid epidemic, this condition concerns today 70% of the populationa particularly increased risk among people who have had Covid. However, dyslipidemia is directly involved in several cardiac pathologiesit also requires long-term treatment with lipid-lowering medications.
A long list of pathologies linked to Covid-19
The Italian work confirms what we already suspected: Covid-19 can have a deleterious impact on heart health. Italian researchers help us understand the role of dyslipidemia, which is known to increase the risk of both myocardial infarction and stroke. This risk is added to those already observed in people with long Covid, who are more likely to suffer fromhigh blood pressure and of type 2 diabetes.
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