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Adverse cardiovascular magnetic resonance phenotypes are associated with greater likelihood of incident coronavirus disease 2019: findings from the UK Biobank
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- BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disproportionately affects older people. Observational studies suggest indolent cardiovascular involvement after recovery from acute COVID-19. However, these findings may reflect pre-existing cardiac phenotypes. AIMS: We tested the association of baseline cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) phenotypes with incident COVID-19. METHODS: We studied UK Biobank participants with CMR imaging and COVID-19 testing. We considered left and right ventricular (LV, RV) volumes, ejection fractions, and stroke volumes, LV mass, LV strain, native T1, aortic distensibility, and arterial stiffness index. COVID-19 test results were obtained from Public Health England. Co-morbidities were ascertained from self-report and hospital episode statistics (HES). Critical care admission and death were from HES and death register records. We investigated the association of each cardiovascular measure with COVID-19 test result in multivariable logistic regression models adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, deprivation, body mass index, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and prior myocardial infarction. RESULTS: We studied 310 participants (n = 70 positive). Median age was 63.8 [57.5, 72.1] years; 51.0% (n = 158) were male. 78.7% (n = 244) were tested in hospital, 3.5% (n = 11) required critical care admission, and 6.1% (n = 19) died. In fully adjusted models, smaller LV/RV end-diastolic volumes, smaller LV stroke volume, and poorer global longitudinal strain were associated with significantly higher odds of COVID-19 positivity. DISCUSSION: We demonstrate association of pre-existing adverse CMR phenotypes with greater odds of COVID-19 positivity independent of classical cardiovascular risk factors. CONCLUSIONS: Observational reports of cardiovascular involvement after COVID-19 may, at least partly, reflect pre-existing cardiac status rather than COVID-19 induced alterations
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s40520-021-01808-z
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+ British Heart Foundation
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- Funder identifier:
- 10.13039/501100000274
- Grant:
- FS/17/81/33318
+ Medical Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- 10.13039/501100000265
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- 405050259
+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- 10.13039/501100000266
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- EP/P001009/1
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Journal:
- Aging Clinical and Experimental Research More from this journal
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1133-1144
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-08
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1720-8319
- ISSN:
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1594-0667
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English
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1168015
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pubs:1168015
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W3134849057
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2026-02-14
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- 2021
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