Simon Ball, Amitava Banerjee, Colin Berry, Jonathan R Boyle, Benjamin Bray, William Bradlow, Afzal Chaudhry, Rikki Crawley, John Danesh, Alastair Denniston, Florian Falter, Jonine D Figueroa, Christopher Hall, Harry Hemingway, Emily Jefferson, Tom Johnson, Graham King, Kuan Ken Lee, Paul McKean, Suzanne Mason, Nicholas L Mills, Ewen Pearson, Munir Pirmohamed, Michael T C Poon, Rouven Priedon, Anoop Shah, Reecha Sofat, Jonathan A C Sterne, Fiona E Strachan, Cathie L M Sudlow, Zsolt Szarka, William Whiteley, Michael Wyatt
OBJECTIVE: To monitor hospital activity for presentation, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19) pandemic to inform on indirect effects. METHODS: Retrospective serial cross-sectional study in nine UK hospitals using hospital activity data from 28 October 2019 (pre-COVID-19) to 10 May 2020 (pre-easing of lockdown) and for the same weeks during 2018-2019. We analysed aggregate data for selected cardiovascular diseases before and during the epidemic...
December 2020: Heart