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Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases: An OpenSAFELY cohort study

Cezard, GI; Denholm, RE; Knight, R; Wei, Y; Teece, L; Toms, R; Forbes, HJ; ... Walker, V; + view all (2024) Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases: An OpenSAFELY cohort study. Nature Communications , 15 , Article 2173. 10.1038/s41467-024-46497-0. Green open access

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Abstract

Infection with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with an increased risk of arterial and venous thrombotic events, but the implications of vaccination for this increased risk are uncertain. With the approval of NHS England, we quantified associations between COVID-19 diagnosis and cardiovascular diseases in different vaccination and variant eras using linked electronic health records for ~40% of the English population. We defined a ‘pre-vaccination’ cohort (18,210,937 people) in the wild-type/Alpha variant eras (January 2020-June 2021), and ‘vaccinated’ and ‘unvaccinated’ cohorts (13,572,399 and 3,161,485 people respectively) in the Delta variant era (June-December 2021). We showed that the incidence of each arterial thrombotic, venous thrombotic and other cardiovascular outcomes was substantially elevated during weeks 1-4 after COVID-19, compared with before or without COVID-19, but less markedly elevated in time periods beyond week 4. Hazard ratios were higher after hospitalised than non-hospitalised COVID-19 and higher in the pre-vaccination and unvaccinated cohorts than the vaccinated cohort. COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of cardiovascular events after COVID-19 infection. People who had COVID-19 before or without being vaccinated are at higher risk of cardiovascular events for at least two years.

Type: Article
Title: Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases: An OpenSAFELY cohort study
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46497-0
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46497-0
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Humans, Cardiovascular Diseases, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Testing, COVID-19 Vaccines, Cohort Studies, Vaccination
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine > MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth and Ageing
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189437
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