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347: Expert Edition: Dr Jessica Orchard (Sports Cardiology & Cardiac Screening Researcher, Assoc. Editor @BJSM_BMJ ): Cardiac Health for the Endurance Athlete

The Physical Performance Show

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COVID-Slash - Is There an Increase in Cardiovascular Deaths?

Australia is a really interesting case study because you can look at the different years where we had no COVID and no respiratory deaths. So, in 2020 and 2021, when we had the vaccine as well, but still not much COVID, we had what we call negative excess deaths. But then in 2022, now that we've got sort of COVID circulating a lot and we've got our respiratory back, we've got flu back and those things, we now have more excess deaths, including cardiovascular deaths. And so, the Australian data really shows that sort of more COVID and more respiratory in the population at a population level does lead to more deaths and more cardiac deaths as part of it

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