Acute cardiovascular hospitalizations and illness severity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) hospitalizations declined worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is unclear how shelter-in-place orders affected acute CVD hospitalizations, illness severity, and outcomes.

Hypothesis

COVID-19 pandemic was associated with reduced acute CVD hospitalizations (heart failure [HF], acute coronary syndrome [ACS], and stroke [CVA]), and worse HF illness severity.

Methods

We compared acute CVD hospitalizations at Duke University Health System before and after North Carolina's shelter-in-place order (January 1-March 29 vs. March 30-August 31), and used parallel comparison cohorts from 2019. We explored illness severity among admitted HF patients using ADHERE ("high risk": >2 points) and GWTG-HF (">10%": >57 points) in-hospital mortal

SUBMITTER: Rao VN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8119829 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature