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Response to: Correspondence on ‘Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank’ by Jolobe
  1. Zahra Raisi-Estabragh1,2,
  2. Nicholas C Harvey3,4,
  3. Steffen E Petersen1,2,5,6
  1. 1 William Harvey Research Institute, NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
  2. 2 Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
  3. 3 MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  4. 4 NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
  5. 5 Health Data Research UK, London, UK
  6. 6 Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK; zahraraisi{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2022-322124

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    The Authors' reply We read with interest the response to our study evaluating cardiovascular sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank. Our analysis of 17 871 UK Biobank participants with past COVID-19 demonstrated increased risk of first occurrence of a range of cardiovascular diseases compared with uninfected controls, particularly in those requiring hospitalisation for COVID-19.1 While we did not specifically examine the burden of mechanical …

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    • Contributors ZR-E, NCH and SEP jointly wrote and approved the response letter.

    • Funding This study was funded by the British Heart Foundation (FS/17/81/33318, PG/21/10619).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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