Covid-19 may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths for three years after an infection, study suggests

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CNN  —  Covid-19 could be a powerful risk factor for heart attacks and strokes for as long as three years after an infection, a large new study suggests. The study was published Wednesday in the medical journal Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. It relied on medical records from roughly a quarter of a million people who were enrolled in a large database called the UK Biobank. What did show up, the researchers say, was a distinction by blood type. Researchers have known that

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