Abstract
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), represented a high burden for low and middle-income countries. Patients with NCDs are at higher risk of COVID-19 and suffer worse clinical outcomes. We present mortality trends for myocardial infarction (AMI), stroke, hypertension (HT), and type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) from 2005 to 2021 in Ecuador. The greatest increase in mortality observed in the pandemic was in AMI, T2DM, and HT. Factors related to COVID-19, health services, and patients with NCDs could contribute to these important increases in mortality.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 26 |
| Journal | Annals of Global Health |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 5 Apr 2023 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- cardiometabolic diseases
- chronic noncommunicable diseases
- COVID-19
- Ecuador
- mortality
- Pandemics
- Humans
- Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology
- Noncommunicable Diseases/epidemiology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology
- Ecuador/epidemiology
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