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COVID-19 has had an indirect toll on heart health around the world, as cardiovascular testing volumes plummeted and cardiovascular deaths rose in 2020, researchers found.
CDC data revealed that in the first U.S. coronavirus epicenters like New York, the number of people who died from ischemic heart disease and hypertension increased dramatically after mid-March compared with historical controls from the year before.
It remains unclear whether the excess deaths were related to people avoiding necessary medical care for fear of contracting SARS-CoV-2 or reflected other factors, such as undiagnosed COVID-19, according to study authors led by Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, reporting in the