How to Use myocarditis in a Sentence

myocarditis

noun
  • The highest rates of myocarditis in adults were in younger men -- ages 18 to 24.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The pericarditis, the myocarditis, all the kids that died from it.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • And the risk of myocarditis combined with MIS-C was 1,000 times higher.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • There are no cases of myocarditis, MIS-C, or death in the trial.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • Scientists say the risk of myocarditis tends to be highest in 16- and 17-year-olds.
    The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Very rarely, mRNA vaccines can cause myocarditis, or swelling in or around the heart.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The median age of the dozen confirmed with myocarditis is 51.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There were no cases of myocarditis in the trial of young children.
    NBC News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The panelists viewed data that showed that the risk of myocarditis, a side effect of the vaccine, is less common in younger children.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 24 May 2022
  • Due to concerns for myocarditis, there was a delay in FDA approval.
    Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Too few younger individuals have been treated to have a clear idea of the risk of myocarditis.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021
  • People at risk for myocarditis — those who are ages 18 to 24 — should wait three or four months between boosters.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The scant data on the risk of myocarditis was criticized by a few health experts in December when the CDC signed off on boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds.
    NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Ladapo and DeSantis had pointed to the risk of getting myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, from the vaccine.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But myocarditis was not identified in the trials in young children.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 21 June 2022
  • This can lead to myocarditis, the technical term for inflammation of the heart muscle.
    Tara C. Smith, SELF, 23 Feb. 2022
  • There were no reports of myocarditis, a rare side effect seen mostly in younger men that has been linked to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
    Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Research suggests that the longer the wait, the lower the risk of developing myocarditis, a swelling or inflammation of the heart muscle.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The data didn’t show any new safety concerns or detect new cases of myocarditis, the agency said.
    Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The Novavax shot, like the two mRNA vaccines, carries a small risk of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 19 July 2022
  • The symptoms of post-vaccination myocarditis are also rare and mild, Sawyer said.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The committee will review more recent data and decide whether the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks of myocarditis in that age group.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
  • Health experts have said the myocarditis risk is low in children who are vaccinated and outweighed by the threat Covid-19 poses to children.
    Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The risk of myocarditis, though ultimately rare, is higher in men under 30.
    NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • No cases of myocarditis were reported in the trial, the company said.
    Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
  • One of those side effects is myocarditis, a weakening of the heart muscle, that has been reported in a very small number of teenage boys and young men after getting a Covid shot.
    New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • One of those side effects is myocarditis, a weakening of the heart muscle, that has been reported in a small number of teenage boys and young men after getting covid shots.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2021
  • That request was put on hold because the F.D.A. wanted to see more data on a rare side effect, myocarditis, which involves inflammation of the heart.
    New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The rate of myocarditis or pericarditis was highest among men under 21, but it was seen with decreasing frequency in men up to 29.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The only potential side effect that concerns experts is a swelling of the heart, called myocarditis, which happens rarely, but most often in adolescent and young men.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021

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