1. When the patients stayed home: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on acute cardiac admissions and cardiac mortality in Malta
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Neil Grech, Robert G. Xuereb, Kathleen England, Maryanne Caruana, and Rachel Xuereb
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Acute coronary syndrome ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Heart failure ,Cardiac mortality ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Pandemic ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Myocardial infarction ,Mortality ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,COVID-19 ,medicine.disease ,Original Article ,0305 other medical science ,business - Abstract
Aim This study aimed to investigate the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on all types of acute cardiac admissions (ACAs) and cardiac mortality in Malta. Methods Number, characteristics and delay to presentation of ACAs to our institution during the study period (28 February–30 April 2020) were compared with the corresponding 2019 period. Non-parametric correlation analyses between daily SARS-CoV-2 cases in Malta, Italy and the UK and daily ACAs were performed. Differences in cardiac death distribution (community vs. in-hospital) during the two periods were analysed. Results There was a significant decline in daily ACAs in 2020 (median 3 [IQR 3]) vs. 2019 (median 5 [IQR 4]), p
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- 2021
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