COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Impact and Potential Implications for Cardiovascular Disease in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The literature indicates that cardiovascular disease (CVD; including stroke), older age, and availability of health care resources affect COVID-19 case fatality rates (CFRs). The cumulative effect of COVID-19 CFRs in global CVD populations and the extrapolated effect on access to health care services in the CVD population in Canada are not fully known. In this study we explored the relationships of factors that might affect COVID-19 CFRs and estimated the potential indirect effects of COVID-19 on Canadian health care resources.

Methods

Country-level epidemiological data were analyzed to study the correlation, main effect, and interaction between COVID-19 CFRs and: (1) the proportion of the population with CVD; (2) the proportion of the population 65 years of age o

SUBMITTER: Botly LCP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275173 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature