COVID-19 and Accelerated Blood Vessel Aging
- Decryption - Six months after an infection, patients have loss of elasticity of the arteries.
- Over time, blood vessels lose the elasticity that allows them to cushion the pressure variations due to heartbeat.
- To do this, his team used a method of measuring the loss of elasticity.
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Decryption – Six months after an infection, patients have loss of elasticity of the arteries. A process that increases the risk of infarction and stroke.
Over time, blood vessels lose the elasticity that allows them to cushion the pressure variations due to heartbeat. This stiffening process, which increases the risks of infarction, stroke and dementia, is one of the natural effects of aging. It can be aggravated by external factors such as smoking, l’hypertensiondiabetes or cholesterol… as well as by COVID, as suggested by an international study published Monday, August 18. “We have seen, during the pandemic, that the Sars-Cov-2 virus causes acute vascular and cardiac complicationsexplains Rosa Maria Bruno, professor of pharmacology at Paris-Cité University, specialist in hypertension at the European Hospital Georges-Pompidou (Paris), and first author of research. We have sought to find out if he could also induce long -term effects on the vascular system. »»
To do this, his team used a method of measuring the loss of elasticity. It consists …
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