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Cardiology

Myocardial injury ‘contributes to COVID-19 mortality’

Elevated troponin T linked with a poor prognosis, find researchers
Reuters Health Staff writer
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1 April 2020
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Myocardial injury may play a role in fatal outcomes of COVID-19, three reports in JAMA Cardiology suggest.

Doctors from Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, investigated the association of underlying CVD and myocardial injury with fatal outcomes in 187 patients with COVID-19, of whom 35% had underlying CVD and 28% exhibited myocardial injury as indicated by elevated troponin T levels.

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