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. 2021 Sep-Oct;62(5):384-385.
doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2020.10.003. Epub 2020 Nov 7.

Reduction of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospital admissions in the region of Messinia in Greece during the COVID-19 lockdown period

Emmanouil Makaris  1 , Christos Kourek  2 , Eleftherios Karatzanos  3 , Dionysios Svoronos  1 , Vasileios Karampetsos  1 , Charalampos Panotopoulos  1 , Ioannis Tsorlalis  1 , Nikolaos Lionakis  1 , Stavroula Kosmopoulou  1 , Georgios Koudounis  1
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Reduction of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospital admissions in the region of Messinia in Greece during the COVID-19 lockdown period

Emmanouil Makaris et al. Hellenic J Cardiol. 2021 Sep-Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; acute myocardial infraction (AMI); hospital admission; lockdown; pandemic.

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A. The percentage of AMI and other hospital admissions at the General Hospital of Messinia in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The asterisk (∗) indicates a statistically significant difference between 2018 and 2020 as well as between 2019 and 2020 for AMI hospital admissions (p < 0.05). No difference was observed between 2018 and 2019 (p > 0.05). B. In-hospital and out-of-hospital mortality of patients with AMI in the region of Messinia among pre-lockdown, lockdown and post-lockdown periods of 2020 and between the same periods of 2019 and 2020. No difference was observed for the in-hospital and for the out-of-hospital mortality between 2019 and 2020 as well as among the pre-lockdown, lockdown and post-lockdown periods of 2020 (p > 0.05).
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