Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-hospital mortality in cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in excess mortality due to both COVID-19 directly and other conditions, including cardiovascular (CV) disease. We aimed to explore the excess in-hospital mortality, unrelated to COVID-19 infection, across a range of CV diseases.

Methods and results

A systematic search was performed for studies investigating in-hospital mortality among patients admitted with CV disease without SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with a period outside the COVID-19 pandemic. Fifteen studies on 27 421 patients with CV disease were included in the analysis. The average in-hospital mortality rate was 10.4% (n = 974) in the COVID-19 group and 5.7% (n = 1026) in the comparator group. Compared with periods outside the COVID-19 pandemic, the pooled risk ratio (RR) dem

SUBMITTER: Cannata A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature