Main cardiologist of Azerbaijan Yusif Nagiyev: “Smoking does not increase risk of severe Covid-19 form”

The main cardiologist of the Ministry of Health of Yusif Nagiyev in an interview with Haqqin.az said that the presence of chronic diseases, including diseases of the cardiovascular system, is not a contraindication for vaccination against coronavirus.

Are cardiovascular diseases to the COVID-19 risk group?

– Currently there are no convincing data on a higher probability of infection of persons with cardiovascular diseases, but the risks of severe coronavirus infection and death are higher. Thus, Chinese scientists have shown that the existing CVD has increased 3.5 times increased the risk of developing heavy COVID-19 compared to moderate. Among patients with previously existing CVD mortality is 5 times higher than in the overall population infected with COVID-19. In patients with chronic IBS, the connection of COVID-19 takes the course of the disease due to destabilization of the available atherosclerotic plaques and the high risk of its gap with the development of them. At the same time, the risk of death of infected patients increases. In patients with COVID-19, previously underwent invasive or operational interventions on heart vessels, the risk of developing stanta and shunt thrombosis increases. Therefore, patients with CVD should be considered as a higher risk group.

– Who is exposed to the greatest risk of severe coronavirus infection?

– a higher frequency of severe disease and death is described for persons over 60 years old, men, persons having obesity, arterial hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic lung diseases, chronic kidney disease, oncology or immunosuppressive states. It is noteworthy that smoking does not increase the risk of severe coronavirus form.

What are the symptoms of COVID-19 in people suffering from cardiovascular diseases?

– along with symptoms of viral infection, chronic CVDs are exacerbated. This is manifested by an increase in blood pressure in hypertensive, an increase in shortness of breath in patients with chronic heart failure, relapses of attacks of fliccific arrhythmia, decrease in painful threshold during chronic stained angina.

Why increases blood pressure in viral infections? This may be a consequence of the increase in the temperature and spasm of the vessels, which increases the risk of hypertensive crisis.

During the treatment of viral diseases in the presence of arterial hypertension, it is impossible:

• Take caffeine products (Panadol, Coldrels, etc.)

• Use drugs from a cold with a phenylephrin-based vesseloring effect

• Take antihistamine group drugs

• Pee alcohol

• Take a hot bath, inhalation, rubbing and wrapping

People with elevated blood pressure fall into the risk group of heavy forms of COVID-19. But pressure control with prescribed drugs reduces this danger, so all world cardiological professional communities strongly recommend the continuation of the admission of vital drugs.