Long Covid study finds low levels of lasting cardiac damage in patients

The most commonly reported specific symptoms were fatigue/malaise, myalgia or muscle pain, headache, fever, and a cough.

A high proportion of Covid patients presented with residual cardiac symptoms after infection, but the prevalence of lasting cardiac damage is low, Ireland’s largest prospective study on heart health and long covid has found.

The SETANTA study (Study of Heart Disease and Immunity after Covid-19 in Ireland) recruited a total of 100 participants from GP surgeries in Dublin who had a recent history of Covid-19 infection.