A recent study of Big Ten athletes found a higher rate of myocarditis diagnoses tied to COVID-19 than previously documented in another study, according to ESPN's Paula Lavigne.
As part of a study published in JAMA Cardiology, researchers performed cardiac MRIs on 1,597 Big Ten athletes who had tested positive for COVID-19. Of that group, 37 had myocarditis, an inflammatory heart condition.
That percentage (2.3) is more than triple the rate from an April study for Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. In that investigation, 21 of the 3,018 athletes (0.