Table 1.

Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitalizations for cardiovascular conditions, mortality rates, and excess cardiovascular mortality worldwide, regardless of infection rates

Study	COVID-19 impact	Country	Admission rate	In-hospital mortality	Out-of-hospital mortality	Overall CV mortality	Excess CV mortality
All CV conditions
Butt et al.3	Low	Denmark	–	↓	↑	↔	0%
Brant et al.4	High	Brazil	–	–	–	↑	4%
Konig et al.5	Moderate	Germany	↓	↑	–	–	1%
Del Pinto et al.6	Lowa	Italy	↓	↔	–	–	–1%
Wu et al.7	High	UK	–	↔	↑	↑	8%
Bhatt et al.8	High	USA	↓	↔	–	–	2%
Acute coronary syndrome
Mesnier et al.9	High	France	↓	↔	–	–	2%
Popovic et al.10	High	France	↓	↑	–	–	22%
Nef et al.11	Moderate	Germany	↓	–	–	↑	12%
Primessnig et al.12	Moderate	Germany	↓	↑	–	–	13%
Tam et al.13	High	Hong Kong	↓	↑	–	–	7%
De Rosa et al.14	High	Italy	↓	↑	–	–	7%
Wilson et al.15	High	UK	↓	↔	–	–	3%
Gluckman et al.16	High	USA	↓	↔	–	–	0%
Heart failure
Andersson et al.17	Low	Denmark	↓	↔	–	↔	0%
Bollmann et al.18	Moderate	Germany	↓	↑	–	–	2%
Cannata et al.19	High	UK	↓	↑	–	–	3%
Doolub et al.20	High	UK	↓	↑	–	–	10%
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Marijon et al.21	High	France	↑	↑	↑	↑	2%
Baldi et al.22	High	Italy	↑	↑	↑	↑	6%

CV, cardiovascular.

^aRelatively low impact region for COVID cases at the time of the analysis.