YOUR ATTENTION: 🚨Every new COVID-19 (re)infection elevates your cardiovascular risk profile. Even mild cases can raise the odds of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and other CV events for months to years afterward. Risk is higher with more severe illness, yes, but it’s certainly not limited to severe disease. Updated vaccination will show some mitigation(infection severity↓) but doesn’t give you a risk-free pass! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #UpdateVaccination ➡️Supportive links: 1. Xie et al., Nature Medicine (2022): Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 (elevated risk even in non-hospitalized patients, graded by severity). nature.com/articles/s41591-0… 2. American Heart Association news release (2024) on the UK Biobank analysis (≈2× risk of heart attack/stroke/death for up to 3 years after any COVID-19 infection). newsroom.heart.org/news/covi… 3. Lindgren et al., Journal of Internal Medicine (2026): Nationwide Swedish matched cohort (nearly doubled long-term MACE and death risk in hospitalized cases, persisting beyond year 1). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 4. Hadidchi et al., Journal of Human Hypertension (2026): Elevated CV outcomes (including in non-hospitalized patients) among those with pre-existing hypertension. nature.com/articles/s41371-0… 5. CARTESIAN study, European Heart Journal (2025): Accelerated vascular aging / arterial stiffness after COVID-19, including mild cases: academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a… ➡️These five links give a clear progression from the early 2022 data through 2024–2026 confirmation!!

1/5 Happy 7th 🌟#PoTSAwarenessDay🌟 Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) can be a life altering and debilitating health condition. #PoTS is an abnormality of the autonomic nervous system, which controls all bodily functions that we don’t have to think about. Individuals experience orthostatic intolerance, which means that they mostly experience symptoms when in an upright position. The majority of people with PoTS also have other related medical conditions such as hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, allergies, Long Covid and ME/CFS- all of which can make symptoms worse. If you are new here please take the time to view the image thread below to learn some basics about PoTS: 🟣 Symptoms 🟣 Tests/Investigations/Diagnosis 🟣 Treatment- lifestyle changes & medication View our website to learn more about symptoms: potsuk.org/about-pots/sympto… #MedTwitter #TeamGP #ChronicIllness #LongCovid #InvisibleIllness #MECFS #EDS #MCAS @DrSdeG @elisaperego78 @DrSarahJarvis @mermhart @cpgale3 @LongCovidAdvoc @LC_Physio @MEAssociation