Study Finds COVID Vaccine Linked to Broad Protections against Heart Conditions

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to COVID-19 — strokes, heart attacks and hospitalization from heart disease — by about 40 percent, according to a new study. The findings, the latest in a growing body of research about the vaccine's benefits for heart health, suggest such benefits observed in earlier studies have persisted for years.

The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, also suggested the vaccine has a broader public health benefit. The vaccine modestly reduced cardiovascular conditions, hospitalizations and deaths of all causes, including those not linked to COVID, researchers said.

"It tells us that these vaccines have actually brought beneficial effects even in people who don't really know that they actually have contracted COVID-19," said Ziyad Al-Aly, a physician-scientist and senior clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis and co-author of the study.

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