MOSCOW, Jan 10 Coronavirus attacks the entire body, including it can damage the heart muscle, warned in an interview with Sputnik radio doctor of medical sciences, professor, cardiologist, head of the temporary COVID hospital «Russian Railways-Medicine» Zaurbek Shugushev. The condition of a patient whose heart has suffered from COVID -19 is similar to the one in which the person who has had a massive heart attack is, the doctor said. According to him, the coronavirus can have «direct damaging effects» on the heart muscle. At the same time, the severe consequences of infection are often detected already in postcoid syndrome. «One of the manifestations of postcoid syndrome is when people have heart failure due to myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle, — ed.). In this case, the patient is in the same condition as and after a massive heart attack, «- said Shugushev. The prognosis for such patients is tragic, their life expectancy is only five years, the cardiologist believes.» Unfortunately, the average life expectancy of such patients is only five years. lung, that is, people with these diagnoses live the same number of years from symptom detection to death, «he explained. 
Antibodies after COVID- 19 turned out to be dangerous Neither Russian nor foreign scientists have yet figured out what factors lead to heart failure in postcoid syndrome ome. In any case, the degree of risk does not depend on the patient's age, the doctor said. “So far, we cannot say why the heart muscle is affected after COVID-19. “Neither we, nor in the world, can yet identify the correlation,» Zaurbek Shugushev added in an interview with Sputnik radio. Vaccination can help protect the cardiovascular system from being damaged by the coronavirus. Vaccination will help to easily transfer the infection, the doctor reminded.
