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COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus May Lead to Cardiac Arrest or Heart Attack

Some of the heart conditions which may pose as a high risk in COVID-19 related cases include:

Elderly patients with coronary artery disease, hypertension, or diabetes. Patients in the waitlist for cardiac surgery. Immunosuppressed patients with heart disease and pregnant women with associated heart disease, heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, and patients with congenital cyanotic heart disease or Obstructive form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.