“Strokes.

Their risk increases significantly - six times more than against the backdrop of influenza, "Boitsova quotes TASS.

He said that cardiovascular disease occurs in every third patient hospitalized with COVID-19.

At the same time, Boytsov noted that cardiovascular diseases do not increase the risk of contracting coronavirus, but determine a more severe course of the disease.

According to him, "they increase the risk of hospitalization in case of infection by about six times, increase the risk of death by 12 times."

Earlier it was reported that 13,754 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Russia during the day.

The total number of detected cases for the entire period of the epidemic in the country reached 1,354,163.

Professor of the Department of Virology at the Belozersky Institute of Moscow State University, Alexei Agranovsky, in an interview with URA.RU, assessed the immunity of those vaccinated against COVID-19.