Unvaccinated more likely to have heart attack, stroke after COVID, study finds

Enlarge / A medical director in Germany sits in front of a monitor showing the real-time data of a patient with a heart attack. Getty | Arne Dedert

A bout of COVID-19 is known to increase a person’s long-term risks of having a major cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke. But being fully vaccinated or even partially vaccinated appears to bring that risk down, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The study, led by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, drew

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