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Population-based disease-group analysis of Spanish excess mortality in the early COVID-19 pandemic period

Open Heart

Background and aim Increased mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic is not explained exclusively by COVID-19 infection and its complications. We analysed non-COVID-19 causes of mortality in a population analysis based on data from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. compared with 2019.

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Clinical characteristics and mortality in all Czech patients after pacemaker implantation in the last decade

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

years old] between 2010 and 2021. Almost 114,000 pacemakers were implanted between 2010 and 2021, of which 27.9% The annual number of implantations has been steadily increasing with a 6% annual decline in 2020 with increased mortality and reductions in care provided, likely related to COVID-19. were single-chamber, 67.4%

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Feature | Ten Americas: Growing Disparities Creating Demographic Chasms

American College of Cardiology

These findings, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, point to an uneven playing field where communities burdened by poverty, segregation and limited health care access face markedly shorter lifespans. COVID-19 set them even further behind the other Americas, with a 6.6-year years in 2000 (vs. for America 1) to 70.2

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The Evolving Computed Tomography Market

DAIC

It reported the rate of CCTA exams by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased markedly from 2010 to 2019. Data was pulled from 2010–2019 Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary (PSPS) files obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website. Reeves, MD, Ethan J. Halpern, MD, and Vijay M.

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What went on during Covid?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

The time of COVID-19 (which I shall simply call Covid from here on). Which, I think, remains mission critical, because there are strong signs that those who drove the Covid nonsense are itching to do it all, once more. In the UK we have massive Covid enquiry going on. It came, it went, it is now ancient history.

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular mortality and contrast analysis within subgroups

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background An increase in deaths has been perceived during the pandemic, which cannot be explained only by COVID-19. By the end of 2023, the proportion of COVID-related excess death remained high among the elderly (22.4%), males (42.8%) and Alaska Indians/Native American people(39.7%). in 2019–2021, −15.4% in 2019–2021, −7.6%

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Post Pandemic, US Cardiovascular Death Rate Continues Upward Trajectory

DAIC

The continuing trend reverses improvements achieved in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce mortalities from heart disease and stroke , the leading causes of death in the United States. from 2010 to 2019. from 2010 to 2019. from 2020 through 2022, in contrast to a decline of 8.9%

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