Open Heart (May 2024)

Long COVID and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study

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  • Amitava Banerjee,
  • Jennifer Kathleen Quint,
  • Linzy Houchen-Wolloff,
  • S Thomas,
  • Kamlesh Khunti,
  • Naveed Sattar,
  • J Breeze,
  • Michael Marks,
  • S Johnson,
  • D Smith,
  • C Wright,
  • Colin Berry,
  • Matthew Richardson,
  • Ling-Pei Ho,
  • C Tong,
  • Amisha Singapuri,
  • J Chen,
  • Gerry P McCann,
  • J Cole,
  • X Li,
  • J Greenwood,
  • S Plein,
  • A Brown,
  • J Smith,
  • J Brown,
  • M Brown,
  • J Lewis,
  • A Young,
  • Nicholas L Mills,
  • A Banerjee,
  • R Hughes,
  • C King,
  • L Osborne,
  • S Jones,
  • A Wilson,
  • R Francis,
  • Stefan Neubauer,
  • D Wilkinson,
  • P Marino,
  • N Hart,
  • G Kaltsakas,
  • Alastair James Moss,
  • Betty Raman,
  • John Greenwood,
  • F Khan,
  • J Martin,
  • S Smith,
  • A Casey,
  • A Sheikh,
  • P Carter,
  • T Thompson,
  • B Patel,
  • N Rahman,
  • C Coleman,
  • N Smith,
  • B Williams,
  • K Turner,
  • D Lee,
  • S Barratt,
  • J Williams,
  • L Jones,
  • A Smith,
  • A Gupta,
  • R Reddy,
  • S White,
  • N Williams,
  • A Michael,
  • V Turner,
  • H Evans,
  • L Hall,
  • C Lawson,
  • J Hughes,
  • H Gordon,
  • C Dawson,
  • A Ford,
  • J Simpson,
  • C Bloomfield,
  • E Lee,
  • A Taylor,
  • D Anderson,
  • J Clarke,
  • S Turner,
  • K Shaw,
  • P Shah,
  • S Misra,
  • J Evans,
  • H Jones,
  • M Ali,
  • A Arias,
  • C Dupont,
  • A Harvey,
  • J Wormleighton,
  • A Reed,
  • L Pearce,
  • P Harrison,
  • M Marks,
  • K Shah,
  • J Cooper,
  • C Berry,
  • C David,
  • J Parmar,
  • R Ahmed,
  • P Almeida,
  • M Holland,
  • L Lim,
  • J Mitchell,
  • K Bennett,
  • S Walker,
  • S Ahmad,
  • M Begum,
  • B Young,
  • L Wright,
  • M Holmes,
  • N Sattar,
  • D Clark,
  • Ewen Harrison,
  • M Sharma,
  • J Teixeira,
  • S Patel,
  • D Thomas,
  • I B McInnes,
  • Nazir I Lone,
  • D Grieve,
  • D Griffin,
  • S Siddiqui,
  • E Turner,
  • K McGlynn,
  • C Mills,
  • N Mohamed,
  • A Hosseini,
  • S Knight,
  • K Samuel,
  • L Smith,
  • Chris Brightling,
  • B Guillen-Guio,
  • A Dewar,
  • C Bourne,
  • SJ Singh,
  • RA Evans,
  • I Vogiatzis,
  • D Parekh,
  • S Mandal,
  • H Adamali,
  • M Heightman,
  • P Rivera-Ortega,
  • S Stanel,
  • N Chaudhuri,
  • Y Cheng,
  • L Bishop,
  • F Gleeson,
  • S Janes,
  • D Baldwin,
  • D Arnold,
  • N Maskell,
  • T Nicholson,
  • L Howard,
  • M Toshner,
  • M Steiner,
  • A Price,
  • D Price,
  • M Lipman,
  • A Shaw,
  • J Busby,
  • M Patel,
  • L McGarvey,
  • R Evans,
  • S West,
  • N Petousi,
  • D Thickett,
  • T Gorsuch,
  • J Fuld,
  • P Cullinan,
  • L Houchen-Wolloff,
  • R Free,
  • E Daynes,
  • A De Soyza,
  • E Harris,
  • H Parfrey,
  • F Woodhead,
  • L Watson,
  • K Jiwa,
  • G Davies,
  • G Jones,
  • J Hurst,
  • M Spears,
  • J Finch,
  • A Dipper,
  • C Echevarria,
  • G Jenkins,
  • I Stewart,
  • E Sapey,
  • N Talbot,
  • B Gooptu,
  • M Richardson,
  • P Greenhaff,
  • K Roy,
  • S Holden,
  • R Russell,
  • M Gibbons,
  • A Morley,
  • J Porter,
  • R Djukanovic,
  • V Lewis,
  • T Shaw,
  • Jayanth Ranjit Arnold,
  • K Elliott,
  • S Young,
  • A David,
  • C Armour,
  • S Edwards,
  • H Henson,
  • P Atkin,
  • A Daniels,
  • L Zeidan,
  • M Broome,
  • M Gill,
  • A Broadley,
  • L Matthews,
  • H Redfearn,
  • S Kelly,
  • C Thomas,
  • D Evans,
  • Z Omar,
  • E Perkins,
  • Annemarie B Docherty,
  • J George,
  • S Wessely,
  • R Upthegrove,
  • L Lavelle-Langham,
  • D Bell,
  • James Chalmers,
  • Alun D Hughes,
  • Victoria Harris,
  • B Cooper,
  • S Byrne,
  • P Moss,
  • C Singh,
  • S Painter,
  • A McMahon,
  • M Ainsworth,
  • K Scott,
  • G Mills,
  • C Carr,
  • D Jones,
  • D Faluyi,
  • S Kerr,
  • A Richards,
  • S Parker,
  • P Dark,
  • T Jackson,
  • L Carr,
  • C Taylor,
  • E Watson,
  • C Vickers,
  • L Armstrong,
  • B Hairsine,
  • L Allsop,
  • L Stephenson,
  • E Beranova,
  • M Bates,
  • C McGhee,
  • M Harvey,
  • A Cook,
  • S Dunn,
  • I Wynter,
  • H Tench,
  • R Loosley,
  • J Featherstone,
  • L Bailey,
  • D Wilson,
  • N Gautam,
  • A Burns,
  • Neil J Greening,
  • B Card,
  • N Powell,
  • T Craig,
  • L Daines,
  • CM Nolan,
  • RE Barker,
  • JA Walsh,
  • O Polgar,
  • S Diver,
  • J Quint,
  • A Dunleavy,
  • C Avram,
  • C Francis,
  • R Aul,
  • J Rossdale,
  • G Burns,
  • H Tedd,
  • T Felton,
  • L Morrison,
  • C Xie,
  • D Menzies,
  • A Haggar,
  • S Marciniak,
  • S Francis,
  • T Dong,
  • H Jarvis,
  • S Brill,
  • A Martineau,
  • F Liew,
  • P Haldar,
  • C Price,
  • A Butt,
  • T Kabir,
  • N Armstrong,
  • P Beirne,
  • E Cox,
  • W Storrar,
  • P Beckett,
  • W Ibrahim,
  • S Cooper,
  • D Lewis,
  • E Robinson,
  • L Allan,
  • C Antoniades,
  • J T Scott,
  • K Radhakrishnan,
  • N Bishop,
  • J Taylor,
  • J Kirk,
  • C Heeley,
  • M Hewitt,
  • J Watson,
  • J Hutchinson,
  • L Finnigan,
  • D Lomas,
  • S Macdonald,
  • H Chinoy,
  • A Ross,
  • A Mohamed,
  • M Soares,
  • C Oliver,
  • A Lucey,
  • N Simpson,
  • N Basu,
  • S Logan,
  • M J Davies,
  • P C Calder,
  • L Griffiths,
  • K Davies,
  • J McNeill,
  • X Fu,
  • P Cairns,
  • F Davies,
  • M Xu,
  • J Quigley,
  • A Ramos,
  • R Stone,
  • K Roberts,
  • A Prabhu,
  • L Robinson,
  • C Wood,
  • M Baldwin,
  • S Wright,
  • M G Jones,
  • K Saunders,
  • C O’Brien,
  • N Rogers,
  • S Heller,
  • K Chapman,
  • C O'Brien,
  • J M Wild,
  • A L Tan,
  • J McCormick,
  • C Childs,
  • C Coupland,
  • M Buch,
  • J Dennis,
  • G Baxter,
  • H Welch,
  • A D Hughes,
  • M J McMahon,
  • A Howell,
  • J Kwan,
  • A Rowland,
  • A Ashworth,
  • S Walsh,
  • J Owen,
  • I Jones,
  • E McIvor,
  • D Connell,
  • R Thwaites,
  • A McGovern,
  • J Petrie,
  • G Arbane,
  • R Butcher,
  • C Brookes,
  • K Khunti,
  • T Yates,
  • P Chowienczyk,
  • M Witham,
  • M Stern,
  • M Marshall,
  • S Payne,
  • L S Howard,
  • J Woods,
  • A Hormis,
  • C Johnson,
  • J Jacob,
  • P McArdle,
  • T Chalder,
  • K Holmes,
  • M Sharpe,
  • D Stensel,
  • T Peto,
  • F Chan,
  • H Ramos,
  • C E Bolton,
  • J-H Lee,
  • P Mehta,
  • M Ashworth,
  • M Dalton,
  • A Lloyd,
  • L Austin,
  • C Sampson,
  • S Palmer,
  • P Klenerman,
  • K Howard,
  • I Rudan,
  • A McQueen,
  • K Fallon,
  • Catherine Bagot,
  • M Webster,
  • E Davies,
  • S Jose,
  • A McArdle,
  • D Johnston,
  • H Fisher,
  • C Lynch,
  • T Hardy,
  • S Mohammed,
  • V C Harris,
  • B Elliott,
  • G Coakley,
  • J Stockley,
  • S Barrett,
  • E Guthrie,
  • Y Peng,
  • M Ventura,
  • N Selby,
  • A Briggs,
  • G Stephens,
  • E Richardson,
  • K Bhui,
  • J McIntosh,
  • K Lewis,
  • N French,
  • H Qureshi,
  • M Henderson,
  • A Elliott,
  • N I Lone,
  • C Clark,
  • K Ismail,
  • C Summers,
  • S Fletcher,
  • J Rowland,
  • M Hotopf,
  • A Korszun,
  • S Shashaa,
  • H Gregory,
  • P Daly,
  • E Robertson,
  • J S Brown,
  • A Bates,
  • P Saunders,
  • B Marshall,
  • A Cross,
  • A Donaldson,
  • B Zhao,
  • H Lamlum,
  • I Wilson,
  • P Buckley,
  • J Dawson,
  • S Glover,
  • C Christie,
  • B Connolly,
  • M Parkes,
  • L Holloway,
  • B King,
  • F Speranza,
  • M Haynes,
  • T Rees,
  • I Cruz,
  • T McNally,
  • G Ross,
  • G Carson,
  • M Dixon,
  • H Arnold,
  • P M George,
  • K Harrington,
  • M Rees,
  • R Morriss,
  • C Dickens,
  • C Laing,
  • E Hardy,
  • L P Ho,
  • P Chowdhury,
  • M Roy,
  • J Glossop,
  • J Pratt,
  • R A Evans,
  • P Wade,
  • Rachael Evans,
  • S Defres,
  • J Short,
  • S Neubauer,
  • R Batterham,
  • E Wall,
  • T Newman,
  • G J Kemp,
  • J R Geddes,
  • E Russell,
  • C Langenberg,
  • N A Hanley,
  • R Samuel,
  • S Haq,
  • D Trivedi,
  • J Willoughby,
  • E Stringer,
  • S Marsh,
  • K Bramham,
  • L Lightstone,
  • A Hancock,
  • S Shelton,
  • J P Greenwood,
  • N Brunskill,
  • K Munro,
  • T Soulsby,
  • U Nanda,
  • A Ashish,
  • K Liyanage,
  • L Holt,
  • E R Chilvers,
  • D E Newby,
  • L Ingram,
  • A Bolger,
  • J Tomlinson,
  • C Ballard,
  • A Humphries,
  • V Brown,
  • C Sharpe,
  • D Forton,
  • P Kar,
  • R Gregory,
  • D Redwood,
  • R Steeds,
  • K Mangion,
  • A Chiribiri,
  • L Ratcliffe,
  • G P McCann,
  • K M Channon,
  • A M Shah,
  • N L Mills,
  • A Lawrie,
  • A Greenhalgh,
  • K O’Donnell,
  • T Evans,
  • K Drury,
  • D Sutherland,
  • A A R Thompson,
  • J K Baillie,
  • K Hancock,
  • M Hoare,
  • J Valabhji,
  • V Shaw,
  • K SLACK,
  • N M Rahman,
  • C J Jolley,
  • S J SINGH,
  • J D Chalmers,
  • C E Brightling,
  • L G Heaney,
  • D F McAuley,
  • D Peckham,
  • R C Chambers,
  • R G Jenkins,
  • P J M Openshaw,
  • P Neill,
  • H Wheeler,
  • A Moss,
  • C Overton,
  • D Altmann,
  • Alex Horsley,
  • J Blaikley,
  • M Ostermann,
  • L G Spencer,
  • A Horsley,
  • A Singapuri,
  • B Hargadon,
  • K E Lewis,
  • I Jarrold,
  • A Shikotra,
  • S Terry,
  • S S Kon,
  • M Pareek,
  • G Choudhury,
  • W Monteiro,
  • M Bourne,
  • D Nicoll,
  • A Morrow,
  • L Roche,
  • D G Wootton,
  • E K Sage,
  • N J Greening,
  • J Hazeldine,
  • J M Lord,
  • A Zawia,
  • WDC Man,
  • D C Thomas,
  • H Baxendale,
  • J Rodger,
  • D Saralaya,
  • T Hussell,
  • A Lea,
  • M McNarry,
  • B Al-Sheklly,
  • S Thackray-Nocera,
  • T Thornton,
  • J Skeemer,
  • S Greenwood,
  • E Fraser,
  • L Stadon,
  • N Kanellakis,
  • N Magee,
  • S Kon,
  • A Hayday,
  • A J Moss,
  • A Yousuf,
  • N Lewis-Burke,
  • S Finney,
  • T Hillman,
  • H McShane,
  • C Pennington,
  • L Gardiner,
  • R Dharmagunawardena,
  • G MacGowan,
  • L Fabbri,
  • C Subbe,
  • L Burden,
  • P Jezzard,
  • N Samani,
  • C Manisty,
  • P Novotny,
  • D J Cuthbertson,
  • G A Davies,
  • M G Semple,
  • J Murira,
  • W Greenhalf,
  • A Hoare,
  • Louise V Wain,
  • L V Wain,
  • I Hall,
  • G Willis,
  • O Adeyemi,
  • H McGuinness,
  • F Thaivalappil,
  • M Babores,
  • B Michael,
  • D Burn,
  • B Zheng,
  • M Husain,
  • J Hawkes,
  • N Goodman,
  • L Broad,
  • L Turtle,
  • R Gill,
  • J Haworth,
  • J Cavanagh,
  • S Piechnik,
  • C A Miller,
  • S Whittaker,
  • C Ribeiro,
  • R Touyz,
  • P L Molyneaux,
  • J C Porter,
  • R Solly,
  • A Dougherty,
  • E Bullmore,
  • A Sayer,
  • C Kurasz,
  • S Walmsley,
  • D Southern,
  • K Brindle,
  • T Wallis,
  • L O’Brien,
  • S Madathil,
  • A Wight,
  • B Jayaraman,
  • M Flynn,
  • A Checkley,
  • M Plowright,
  • E Major,
  • K Isaacs,
  • M Pavlides,
  • W Schwaeble,
  • E M Harrison,
  • A Ayoub,
  • N Stroud,
  • E Lukaschuk,
  • D P O'Regan,
  • E Wade,
  • V M Ferreira,
  • R I Evans,
  • S Siddique,
  • A Lingford-Hughes,
  • C Nicolaou,
  • B Deakin,
  • H Dobson,
  • A Layton,
  • C Atkin,
  • R Flockton,
  • I Peralta,
  • T Brugha,
  • C Pariante,
  • C Welch,
  • A Frankel,
  • M Tobin,
  • S Fairbairn,
  • A Rowe,
  • A K Thomas,
  • R Sykes,
  • F Barrett,
  • H Atkins,
  • C Norman,
  • L Milner,
  • K Abel,
  • P Crisp,
  • C Nolan,
  • J Mackie,
  • Marco Sereno,
  • Krisnah Poinasamy,
  • S Gurram,
  • G Saalmink,
  • H Bayes,
  • H Aung,
  • P Pfeffer,
  • H Nassa,
  • W McCormick,
  • Claire Alexandra Lawson,
  • R J Allen,
  • Omer Elneima,
  • J Hockridge,
  • B Raman,
  • A Fairman,
  • H Turton,
  • N Majeed,
  • J Bonnington,
  • M Bakali,
  • M Shankar-Hari,
  • L Holdsworth,
  • A Buttress,
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  • Olivia C Leavy,
  • Aarti Shikotra,
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  • O Kon,
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  • Hamish JC McAuley,
  • Ruth Saunders,
  • K Poinasamy,
  • R Dowling,
  • C Edwardson,
  • L Houchen--Wolloff,
  • O C Leavy,
  • H J C McAuley,
  • T Plekhanova,
  • R M Saunders,
  • M Sereno,
  • Y Ellis,
  • H E Hardwick,
  • W Reynolds,
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  • K Ntotsis,
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  • M Halling-Brown,
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  • H McAllister-Williams,
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  • L Milligan,
  • E Mukaetova-Ladinska,
  • A Nevado-Holgado,
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  • S Anifowose,
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  • M Mariveles,
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  • J Schronce,
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  • N Yasmin,
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  • A Berridge,
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  • V Highett,
  • S Kaprowska,
  • AL Key, S Koprowska,
  • G Madzamba,
  • F Malein,
  • C Mears,
  • L Melling,
  • M J Noonan,
  • L Poll,
  • K A Tripp,
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  • J Wyles,
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  • J Blaikely,
  • N Choudhury,
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  • C J Tee,
  • S Waterson,
  • T Light,
  • M Chrystal,
  • W Jang,
  • S Linford,
  • R Needham,
  • A Nikolaidis,
  • S Prosper,
  • A Bloss,
  • M Cassar,
  • F Conneh,
  • M Havinden-Williams,
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2024-002662
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1

Abstract

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Background Pre-existing cardiovascular disease (CVD) or cardiovascular risk factors have been associated with an increased risk of complications following hospitalisation with COVID-19, but their impact on the rate of recovery following discharge is not known.Objectives To determine whether the rate of patient-perceived recovery following hospitalisation with COVID-19 was affected by the presence of CVD or cardiovascular risk factors.Methods In a multicentre prospective cohort study, patients were recruited following discharge from the hospital with COVID-19 undertaking two comprehensive assessments at 5 months and 12 months. Patients were stratified by the presence of either CVD or cardiovascular risk factors prior to hospitalisation with COVID-19 and compared with controls with neither. Full recovery was determined by the response to a patient-perceived evaluation of full recovery from COVID-19 in the context of physical, physiological and cognitive determinants of health.Results From a total population of 2545 patients (38.8% women), 472 (18.5%) and 1355 (53.2%) had CVD or cardiovascular risk factors, respectively. Compared with controls (n=718), patients with CVD and cardiovascular risk factors were older and more likely to have had severe COVID-19. Full recovery was significantly lower at 12 months in patients with CVD (adjusted OR (aOR) 0.62, 95% CI 0.43 to 0.89) and cardiovascular risk factors (aOR 0.66, 95% CI 0.50 to 0.86).Conclusion Patients with CVD or cardiovascular risk factors had a delayed recovery at 12 months following hospitalisation with COVID-19. Targeted interventions to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in patients with cardiovascular disease remain an unmet need.Trail registration number ISRCTN10980107.