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Comment
. 2023 Jan;29(1):45-46.
doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02166-7.

Missed routine cardiovascular treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Missed routine cardiovascular treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic

No authors listed. Nat Med. 2023 Jan.

Abstract

We demonstrate the power of a data-informed medicines-based approach in discovering the indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular events using 1.32 billion records of dispensed medications in England, Scotland and Wales. We estimate that interruption of preventive care could result in more than 13,000 extra cardiovascular events.

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Fig. 1. Trends in the count of incident medications dispensed for England, Scotland and Wales.
Counts by month for incident medications dispensed for four different subgroups of CVD medication are shown. Vertical dotted lines indicate the timing of the first, second and third national lockdowns on 26 March 2020, 5 November 2020 and 6 January 2021, respectively. © 2022, Dale, C. E. et al.
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  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular disease prevention and management.
    Dale CE, Takhar R, Carragher R, Katsoulis M, Torabi F, Duffield S, Kent S, Mueller T, Kurdi A, Le Anh TN, McTaggart S, Abbasizanjani H, Hollings S, Scourfield A, Lyons RA, Griffiths R, Lyons J, Davies G, Harris D, Handy A, Mizani MA, Tomlinson C, Thygesen JH, Ashworth M, Denaxas S, Banerjee A, Sterne JAC, Brown P, Bullard I, Priedon R, Mamas MA, Slee A, Lorgelly P, Pirmohamed M, Khunti K, Morris AD, Sudlow C, Akbari A, Bennie M, Sattar N, Sofat R; CVD-COVID-UK Consortium. Dale CE, et al. Nat Med. 2023 Jan;29(1):219-225. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02158-7. Epub 2023 Jan 19. Nat Med. 2023. PMID: 36658423

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