{"id":7749,"date":"2020-06-23T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:34:48","slug":"decrease-in-acute-coronary-syndrome-presentations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/23\/decrease-in-acute-coronary-syndrome-presentations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-upstate-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Decrease in Acute Coronary Syndrome Presentations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A multi-center study\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">admissions for acute coronary syndrome among COVID-19 negative patients dropped by 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% during March\/April 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=67)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared with the same period in 2019<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=113)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A greater proportion of patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction presented &gt;24<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0hours after onset of symptoms in 2020 than in 2019 (36% vs.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a027%, p=0.033)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that if this decline is due to patients avoiding potentially beneficial cardiac care, this could indicate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an increase in future complications of myocardial infarctions.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the total number of patients\u00a0seen in\u00a0each year was small some of this could be explained by normal year-to-year variation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Braiteh\u00a0et al. (May 2020). Decrease in Acute Coronary Syndrome Presentations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Upstate New York. American Heart Journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ahj.2020.05.009\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ahj.2020.05.009<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-center study\u00a0found\u00a0admissions for acute coronary syndrome among COVID-19 negative patients dropped by 41% during March\/April 2020\u00a0(n=67),\u00a0compared with the same period in 2019\u00a0(n=113).\u00a0A greater proportion of patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction presented &gt;24\u00a0hours after onset of symptoms in 2020 than in 2019 (36% vs.\u00a027%, p=0.033).\u00a0The authors conclude that if this decline is due to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/23\/decrease-in-acute-coronary-syndrome-presentations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-upstate-new-york\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}