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OAKLAND, Calif. The significant declines in heart attack hospitalizations and emergency care for possible strokes seen in Northern California at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic were not seen in subsequent surges, new research from Kaiser Permanente shows.
The study, published June 2 in
JAMA, suggests public health campaigns that encouraged people to seek care if they were experiencing signs or symptoms of a stroke or heart attack were effective. In May 2020, we reported that, in the early months of the pandemic, the weekly number of patients admitted to our hospitals for a heart attack fell to nearly half of what would be expected, said the study s lead author Matthew D. Solomon, MD, PhD, a cardiologist for The Permanente Medical Group and a physician researcher with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. This follow-up study suggests that we were successful in our efforts to reassure patients that it was important to leave their hom
/PRNewswire/ The significant declines in heart attack hospitalizations and emergency care for possible strokes seen in Northern California at the beginning.