ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Successive Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic Had an Increasing Impact on Chronic Cardiovascular Patients in a Western Region of Romania.
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Abstract
Three years since the COVID-19 pandemic started, there is still little information about patients with chronic medical conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), who become infected with SARS-CoV-2. A retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with cardiovascular comorbidities hospitalized with positive RT-PCR results for SARS-CoV-2 during the highest peaks of the first three pandemic waves: April 2020, October 2020, and November 2021. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality; the secondary outcomes were length of hospitalization and required mechanical ventilation to assess the disease severity. Data were extracted from the hospital electronic database system: 680 eligible cases were identified out of 2919 patients. Mortality was the highest in wave 3 (31.9%) compared to the previous waves (13.6% and 25.8%). Hospitalization was also significantly longer in wave 3 (11.58 ± 5.34 vs. 8.94 ± 4.74 and 10.19 ± 5.06;
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