[TheTimes] Health experts have been left baffled by a big rise in a common and potentially fatal type of heart attack in the west of Scotland.
During the summer there was a 25 per cent rise in the number of
people rushed to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank with partially blocked arteries cutting blood supply to the heart.
Typically the centre, which is the largest of its kind in the UK and treats people from five health board areas, receives 240 patients a month suffering with this form of heart attack, but this rose to more than 300 over May, June and July of this year. Doctors have searched for a pattern among patients to determine if less access to health checks in the pandemic or a history of Covid-19 infection may explain it but have found no obvious trend.
| In 2020 I had 2 simultaneous tiny strokes in 2 different parts of my brain, whose cause has yet to be determined. I was concerned these might have been related to COVID, but I had never been symptomatic. My docs refused to test me for COVID during my 48 hours in hospital. A few days after my release I went on my own and got a COVID PCR test which was negative. Sometimes stuff just happens. |
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