{"id":9340,"date":"2021-04-21T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:29:31","slug":"covid-19-associated-mortality-and-cardiovascular-disease-outcomes-among-us-women-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/21\/covid-19-associated-mortality-and-cardiovascular-disease-outcomes-among-us-women-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Associated Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes among US Women Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mortality risk among w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">omen veterans <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who tested positive for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARS-CoV-2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4 times <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> women veterans who tested negative (HR = 3.8) but women who tested positive had lower risk of cardiovascular events (OR = 0.8) and developing new heart disease conditions within 60\u00a0days (OR = 0.7)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, according to a retrospective analysis of national VA registry data <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">collected between February and August 2020. Older age, BMI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2009<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2009<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">30, and prior cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conditions were associated with increased 60-day mortality. There was no significant difference in mortality, cardiovascular events, or onset of heart disease by race\/ethnicity, despite a higher infection rate among women veterans from minority racial\/ethnic groups<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tsai et al.\u00a0(Dec 19, 2021). COVID-19 Associated Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes among US Women Veterans. Scientific Reports. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-88111-z\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-88111-z<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortality risk among women veterans who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 was 4 times that of women veterans who tested negative (HR = 3.8) but women who tested positive had lower risk of cardiovascular events (OR = 0.8) and developing new heart disease conditions within 60\u00a0days (OR = 0.7), according to a retrospective analysis of national&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/21\/covid-19-associated-mortality-and-cardiovascular-disease-outcomes-among-us-women-veterans\/\">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":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340","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=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}