Posts by Pegah Khaloo, MPH
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Cause of Myocardial Injury Affects Mortality Risk in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19
Jeremy N. Ruskin, MD, and colleagues found that high-sensitivity troponin T elevation from any cause is a strong predictor of mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but the odds ratio for patients with elevation due to a primary cardiac etiology was 4.6 compared with 2.7 for patients without.
Biography
Pegah Khaloo, MPH, is a research fellow in the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
At Mass General, our world-class physicians and nurses specialize in specific forms of both heart and vascular disease, and work closely together to offer leading treatments and preventive care for cardiovascular conditions.