Infections that require hospital treatment were associated with increased risk for major cardiovascular disease events immediately after hospitalization, with a small increased risk in the long term, researchers reported.
“Our findings indicate a substantially increased short-term risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events immediately after severe infections,” Pyry N. Sipilä, MD, PhD, researcher in the department of public health at the University of Helsinki, and colleagues wrote in Circulation. “We also observed a modest long-term excess risk of these events, but