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Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York
The COVID-19 virus is a devastating pandemic that has impacted the US healthcare system significantly. More than one study reported a significant decrease in acute coronary syndrome admissions during that pandemic which is still due to unknown reasons. METHODS: This is a retrospective non-controlled...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32569892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.05.009 |
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author | Braiteh, Nabil Rehman, Wajeeh ur Alom, Md Skovira, Vincent Breiteh, Nour Rehman, Ibraheem Yarkoni, Alon Kahsou, Hisham Rehman, Afzal |
author_facet | Braiteh, Nabil Rehman, Wajeeh ur Alom, Md Skovira, Vincent Breiteh, Nour Rehman, Ibraheem Yarkoni, Alon Kahsou, Hisham Rehman, Afzal |
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description | The COVID-19 virus is a devastating pandemic that has impacted the US healthcare system significantly. More than one study reported a significant decrease in acute coronary syndrome admissions during that pandemic which is still due to unknown reasons. METHODS: This is a retrospective non-controlled multi-centered study of 180 patients (117 males and 63 females) with acute coronary syndrome (STEMI and NSTEMI) admitted during March/April of 2019 and March/April 2020 in Upstate New York. RESULTS: A total of 113 patients (61.9% males, 38.1% females) with a mean age of 72.3 ± 14.2 presented during March/April 2019 with ACS (STEMI + NSTEMI) while only 67 (70.1% males, 29.9% females) COVID-19 negative patients with a mean age of 65.1 ± 14.5 presented during the same period (March/April) in 2020. This is a drop by 40.7% (P < .05) of total ACS cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. In NSTEMI patients, 36.4% presented late (>24 hours of symptoms) during the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison with 2019 (27.1%, P = .033). CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial drop by 40.7% (P < .05) of total ACS admissions in our area. This decrease in hospital admissions and late presentations can be a worrisome sign for an increase in future complications of myocardial infarctions. |
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spelling | pubmed-72444332020-05-26 Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York Braiteh, Nabil Rehman, Wajeeh ur Alom, Md Skovira, Vincent Breiteh, Nour Rehman, Ibraheem Yarkoni, Alon Kahsou, Hisham Rehman, Afzal Am Heart J Article The COVID-19 virus is a devastating pandemic that has impacted the US healthcare system significantly. More than one study reported a significant decrease in acute coronary syndrome admissions during that pandemic which is still due to unknown reasons. METHODS: This is a retrospective non-controlled multi-centered study of 180 patients (117 males and 63 females) with acute coronary syndrome (STEMI and NSTEMI) admitted during March/April of 2019 and March/April 2020 in Upstate New York. RESULTS: A total of 113 patients (61.9% males, 38.1% females) with a mean age of 72.3 ± 14.2 presented during March/April 2019 with ACS (STEMI + NSTEMI) while only 67 (70.1% males, 29.9% females) COVID-19 negative patients with a mean age of 65.1 ± 14.5 presented during the same period (March/April) in 2020. This is a drop by 40.7% (P < .05) of total ACS cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. In NSTEMI patients, 36.4% presented late (>24 hours of symptoms) during the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison with 2019 (27.1%, P = .033). CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial drop by 40.7% (P < .05) of total ACS admissions in our area. This decrease in hospital admissions and late presentations can be a worrisome sign for an increase in future complications of myocardial infarctions. Elsevier Inc. 2020-08 2020-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7244433/ /pubmed/32569892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.05.009 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Braiteh, Nabil Rehman, Wajeeh ur Alom, Md Skovira, Vincent Breiteh, Nour Rehman, Ibraheem Yarkoni, Alon Kahsou, Hisham Rehman, Afzal Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York |
title | Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York |
title_full | Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York |
title_fullStr | Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York |
title_full_unstemmed | Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York |
title_short | Decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in upstate New York |
title_sort | decrease in acute coronary syndrome presentations during the covid-19 pandemic in upstate new york |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32569892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.05.009 |
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