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Study compares heart risks of COVID-19 infection and vaccination, and the results may surprise you.

The results will not surprise you. Risk of rare heart complications in children higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination

Co-author Professor Angela Wood, University of Cambridge and Associate Director at the BHF Data Science Centre, said: “Using electronic health records from all children and young people in England, we were able to study very rare but serious heart and clotting complications, and found higher and longer-lasting risks after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination.

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health: Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health records