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Why deaths from cardiovascular disease have risen during the pandemic
Rachel Grumman Bender
January 13, 2021, 10:05 AM
Although hospitalizations for acute cardiovascular problems have gone down during the pandemic, deaths from cardiovascular disease went up in some regions across the U.S., a new study has found.
The researchers say that may be due to patients putting off going to hospitals over fears of contracting COVID-19.
For the study, which was published in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers evaluated death rates from cardiovascular causes in the months leading up to the pandemic in the U.S. (Jan. 1, 2020 to March 17, 2020) and after the start of the pandemic (March 18, 2020, to June 2, 2020). The data was also compared to cardiovascular death rates during the same time periods in 2019.