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. 2022 Sep 12;119(5):804-808.
doi: 10.36660/abc.20220080. Online ahead of print.

Heart Failure Mortality during COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from a Cohort of Public Hospitals in Brazil

[Article in Portuguese, English]
Miguel M Fernandes-Silva  1 , Eduardo Leal Adam  1 , Sabrina Bernardez-Pereira  2 , Suzana Alves Silva  2 , Luiz Guilherme Passaglia  3 , Kleber Renato Ponzi Pereira  4 , Marco Antônio Vieira Guedes  5 , João David de Souza Neto  6 , Ângelo Amato Vincenzo de Paola  7 , Maria Alayde Mendonça Rivera  8 , Elmiro Santos Resende  9 , Denilson Campos de Albuquerque  10 , Fernando Bacal  11 , Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro  3 , Louise Morgan  12 , Sidney C Smith Jr  13 , Fábio Papa Taniguchi  2
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Heart Failure Mortality during COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from a Cohort of Public Hospitals in Brazil

[Article in Portuguese, English]
Miguel M Fernandes-Silva et al. Arq Bras Cardiol. .
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Figures

Figura 1
Figura 1. Estimativas de Kaplan-Meier da probabilidade de morte em pacientes admitidos por insuficiência cardíaca e antes e durante o surto de COVID-19. Antes do surto de COVID-19: semanas epidemiológicas 11 a 44 em 2018 e 2019; durante o surto de COVID-19: semanas epidemiológicas 11 a 44 em 2020
Figura 2
Figura 2. Fatores desencadeantes de descompensação da insuficiência cardíaca por período de estudo. SCA: síndrome coronariana aguda; DRA: doença renal aguda. * p<0,05 pelo teste do qui-quadrado comparando as proporções entre os dois períodos. Antes do surto de COVID-19: semanas epidemiológicas 11 a 44 em 2018 e 2019; durante o surto de COVID-19: semanas epidemiológicas 11 a 44 em 2020
Figure 1
Figure 1. Kaplan-Meier estimates of the probability of death in patients admitted for heart failure before and during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Factors triggering HF decompensation according to study period;.ACS: acute coronary syndrome; AKD: acute kidney disease.
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