Cardiac complications of COVID-19: Incidence and outcomes.
Indian Heart J
; 74(3): 170-177, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1814493
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been associated with pre-existing cardiac conditions as well as cardiovascular complications. The incidence rates of cardiac complications, age, and gender differences in this population are unknown.OBJECTIVES:
We wanted to study the incidence of cardiac complications and mortality in patients with COVID-19.METHODS:
Data from the TriNetX COVID-19 global research network platform was used to identify COVID-19 patients. We compared patients with and without cardiac complications in patients with COVID-19 and obtained survival data.RESULTS:
The final cohort was composed of 81,844 patients with COVID-19. Cardiac complications occurred in 9.3% of patients as follows acute coronary syndromes in 1.3%, heart failure in 4.4%, atrial fibrillation in 4.5%, sinus bradycardia 1.9%, ventricular tachycardia in 0.5% and complete heart block in 0.01%. Mortality was significantly higher in patients with the cardiac complications mentioned (20%) than in those without them (2.9%) (odds ratio 7.2, 95% CI, 6.7-7.7; p < 0.0001). Older males seem to have higher incidence of cardiac complications and mortality.CONCLUSIONS:
Patients with COVID-19 who have cardiac complications have a higher risk of mortality when compared to those without cardiac complications.Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Atrial Fibrillation
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Acute Coronary Syndrome
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COVID-19
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Heart Failure
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian Heart J
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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