Cardiovascular Outcomes in Nova Scotia During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study sought to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response to healthcare delivery on outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Methods

This is a population-based cohort study performed in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada (population 979,499), between the pre-COVID (March 1, 2017-March 16, 2020) and in-COVID (March 17, 2020-December 31, 2020) periods. Adult patients (age ≥ 18 years) with new-onset or existing cardiovascular disease were included for comparison between periods. The main outcome measures included the following: cardiovascular emergency department visits or hospitalizations, mortality, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Results

In the first month of the in-COVID period, emergency department visits (n = 51,750) for c

SUBMITTER: Greene A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8704736 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature