Incidence of cardiac complications following COVID-19 infection: An umbrella meta-analysis study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 causes fatal cardiac damages. Despite many overwhelming meta-analysis related to cardiac complications following COVID-19 disease, no umbrella meta-analysis study has been conducted.

Objectives

We aimed to report the summarized pooled incidences of cardiac complications in the overall, critically ill, and deceased patients, compare the cardiac complications between the severe/non-severe or deceased/non-deceased patients, and also compare poor outcomes between patients with/without acute myocardial injury (AMI).

Methods

PubMed, Scopus, web of science, Cochrane, ProQuest, Springer, Sage journals were searched before April 2021. After assessing the quality and duplicate data, data were run by the random/fixed-effect models, I2 heterogeneity index, Egg

SUBMITTER: Jafari-Oori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743575 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature