Increased Inpatient Mortality for Cardiovascular Patients During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Epidemic in New York

Autor: Stavros E. Mountantonakis, Parth Makker, Moussa Saleh, Kristie M. Coleman, Gregg Husk, Rajiv Jauhar, Varinder Singh, Laurence M. Epstein, Jeffrey Kuvin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, Vol 10, Iss 16 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2047-9980
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020255
Popis: Background The acuity and magnitude of the first wave of the COVID‐19 epidemic in New York mandated a drastic change in healthcare access and delivery of care. Methods and Results We retrospectively studied patients admitted with an acute cardiovascular syndrome as their principal diagnosis to 13 hospitals across Northwell Health during March 11 through May 26, 2020 (first COVID‐19 epidemic wave) and the same period in 2019. Three thousand sixteen patients (242 COVID‐19 positive) were admitted for an acute cardiovascular syndrome during the first COVID‐19 wave compared with 9422 patients 1 year prior (decrease of 68.0%, P
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