High risk of cardiac arrest or heart attack among novel coronavirus patients

The novel Coronavirus impacting our lungs is a well-established fact, but during the last few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, experts have discovered a rise in cardiac arrest cases. It has been observed that patients with diabetes, blood pressure, and heart disease health conditions are harmed majorly by the Coronavirus. 

As per recent scientific studies, COVID-19 may lead to cardiac arrest with symptoms like chest pain, breathlessness, dizziness, palpitations, fainting, etc. 

People with certain issues of blood pressure, diabetes are at a much greater risk than those with severe symptoms from the coronavirus. Experts have cautioned that older old aged patients with heart conditions are at higher risk of fatality. 

This does not mean that patients with underlying heart disease cannot recover from the impact of Coronavirus. There have been many cases in which such patients have recovered. 

According to the experts, some of the heart disease conditions which may pose a higher risk in COVID-19 patients include elderly patients with coronary artery disease, hypertension, or diabetes. Associated heart disease in pregnant women, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and patients with congenital cyanotic heart disease or obstructive form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are also prone to higher risk when they are infected by the Coronavirus. 

Immunosuppressed patients with heart disease like post-transplant conditions have also been found to be at higher risk. If a patient is waiting for cardiac surgery, it may also pose a high risk in COVID-19 infection cases.