Xinhua News Agency, Sydney, October 5 (Reporter Hao Yalin) The University of Queensland, Australia recently released news that a new study has revealed how the new coronavirus affects the heart and how it is different from the flu virus. Heart damage caused by infection provides an idea.
The research, led by the University of Queensland, has been published in the monthly journal Immunology.
One of the study's authors, Dr Kurasimha from the University of Queensland, said: "COVID-19 causes more severe and long-term cardiovascular disease than the 2009 influenza pandemic, but at the molecular level, what causes this The phenomenon is not clear." According to reports, the new study used heart tissue samples collected from the remains of 7 new crown patients, 2 influenza patients and 6 control group patients for analysis.
The results showed that the researchers found stronger inflammation in heart samples from flu patients, and tissue changes associated with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage and repair in heart samples from Covid-19 patients.
The researchers say that the new coronavirus is likely to have a direct effect on the DNA of the heart, not just by triggering a chain reaction of inflammation.
University of Queensland professor John Fraser said the study, which showed that the new coronavirus and the flu virus had different effects on heart tissue, provided more evidence that the new coronavirus was not "flu-like".
In the future, the team hopes to conduct in-depth investigations through larger cohort studies.