PMID- 37034452
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230411
LR  - 20230525
IS  - 2214-9996 (Electronic)
IS  - 2214-9996 (Linking)
VI  - 89
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023
TI  - Increased Cardiovascular Mortality in Ecuador during COVID-19 Pandemic.
PG  - 21
LID - 10.5334/aogh.4021 [doi]
LID - 21
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.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2023 The Author(s).
FAU - Fornasini, Marco
AU  - Fornasini M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9574-0823
AD  - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y de la Vida, Universidad Internacional del 
      Ecuador (UIDE), Quito, Ecuador.
FAU - Sisa, Ivan
AU  - Sisa I
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7503-9044
AD  - Escuela de Medicina, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador.
FAU - Baldeon, Manuel E
AU  - Baldeon ME
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1243-7467
AD  - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y de la Vida, Universidad Internacional del 
      Ecuador (UIDE), Quito, Ecuador.
LA  - eng
PT  - Letter
DEP - 20230405
PL  - United States
TA  - Ann Glob Health
JT  - Annals of global health
JID - 101620864
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *COVID-19
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - Ecuador/epidemiology
MH  - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology
MH  - *Noncommunicable Diseases/epidemiology
MH  - *Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology
PMC - PMC10077983
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - Ecuador
OT  - cardiometabolic diseases
OT  - chronic noncommunicable diseases
OT  - mortality
COIS- The authors have no competing interests to declare.
EDAT- 2023/04/11 06:00
MHDA- 2023/04/11 06:42
PMCR- 2023/04/05
CRDT- 2023/04/10 04:08
PHST- 2022/11/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/02/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/04/11 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/04/10 04:08 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/04/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/04/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.5334/aogh.4021 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Ann Glob Health. 2023 Apr 5;89(1):21. doi: 10.5334/aogh.4021. eCollection 2023.