New Delhi, July 26 -- Union Health Minister JP Nadda said on Friday Covid vaccination had no effect on the risk of heart attacks.
In a written response to a question in Lok Sabha, he also clarified that data regarding heart attack cases is not maintained centrally.
Heart attack cases are not notifiable and there is no central registry for these.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has informed that in order to understand the reasons for heart attack, ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) conducted a multi-centric matched case-control study in 25 hospitals across India.
Cases were patients aged 18-45 years admitted in the study hospitals with newly diagnosed Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) between October 2021 an...