TY - JOUR
T1 - Increased Cardiovascular Mortality in Ecuador during COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Fornasini, Marco
AU - Sisa, Ivan
AU - Baldeon, Manuel E.
N1 - Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s).
PY - 2023/4/5
Y1 - 2023/4/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - cardiometabolic diseases
KW - chronic noncommunicable diseases
KW - COVID-19
KW - Ecuador
KW - mortality
KW - Pandemics
KW - Humans
KW - Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology
KW - Noncommunicable Diseases/epidemiology
KW - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology
KW - Ecuador/epidemiology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152171245&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5334/aogh.4021
DO - 10.5334/aogh.4021
M3 - Carta
C2 - 37034452
AN - SCOPUS:85152171245
SN - 2214-9996
VL - 89
JO - Annals of Global Health
JF - Annals of Global Health
IS - 1
M1 - 26
ER -
