In the original article, there was a mistake in “Table 1” as published. The N for COVID-19 First wave period is 519 instead of 5,19. The corrected “Table 1” appears below.
Table 1.
Characteristics of patients admitted to hospital for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in each period compared with the reference pre-COVID-19 period.
| First wave period (24/02 to 27/04) | Between waves period (28/04 to 20/09) | Second wave period (21/09 to 27/12) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre COVID-19 | COVID-19 | % change | P value | Pre COVID-19 | COVID-19 | % change | P value | Pre COVID-19 | COVID-19 | % change | P value | |
| N | 817 | 519 | −36 | 1788 | 1308 | −12 | 1308 | 1001 | −23 | |||
| Women | 250 (30.60) | 171 (32.95) | −32 | 0.368 | 617 (34.51) | 505 (32.21) | −18 | 0.159 | 449 (34.33) | 331 (33.07) | −26 | 0.526 |
| Men | 567 (69.40) | 348 (67.05) | −39 | 1171 (65.49) | 1063 (67.79) | −9 | 859 (65.67) | 670 (66.93) | −22 | |||
| Age | 0.638 | 0.352 | 0.001 | |||||||||
| <80 | 579 (70.87) | 374 (72.06) | −35 | 1288 (72.04) | 1152 (73.47) | −11 | 883 (67.51) | 738 (73.73) | −16 | |||
| ≥80 | 238 (29.13) | 145 (27.94) | −39 | 500 (27.96) | 416 (26.53) | −17 | 425 (32.49) | 263 (26.27) | −38 | |||
| Type of ACS | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||||||||
| Unstable angina | 143 (17.50) | 84 (16.18) | −41 | 272 (15.21) | 274 (17.47) | 1 | 167 (12.77) | 167 (16.68) | 0 | |||
| NSTEMI | 560 (68.54) | 325 (62.62) | −42 | 1249 (69.85) | 997 (63.58) | −20 | 944 (72.17) | 671 (67.03) | −29 | |||
| STEMI | 97 (11.87) | 57 (10.98) | −41 | 228 (12.75) | 95 (6.06) | −58 | 173 (13.23) | 63 (6.29) | −64 | |||
| Other MI | 8 (0.98) | 43 (8.29) | 438 | 14 (0.78) | 161 (10.27) | 1050 | 10 (0.76) | 75 (7.49) | 650 | |||
| Other ACS | 9 (1.10) | 10 (1.93) | 11 | 25 (1.4) | 41 (2.61) | 64 | 14 (1.07) | 25 (2.50) | 79 | |||
| AMG weight, mean (SD) | 32.92 (17.46) | 20.44 (16.29) | −38 | <0.001 | 31.82 (16.47) | 18.61 (14.44) | −41 | <0.001 | 31.19 (16.27) | 17.16 (13.85) | −45 | <0.001 |
| PCSA index, mean (SD) | 42.11 (15.27) | 42.68 (15.00) | 1 | 0.514 | 42.20 (14.62) | 41.24 (15.10) | −2 | 0.064 | 41.79 (14.56) | 42.05 (14.56) | 1 | 0.680 |
| Quantiles of PCSA index | 0.084 | 0.799 | 0.414 | |||||||||
| 1st | 202 (24.72) | 116 (22.35) | −43 | 422 (23.60) | 394 (25.13) | −7 | 324 (24.77) | 221 (22.08) | −32 | |||
| 2nd | 188 (23.01) | 113 (21.77) | −40 | 428 (23.94) | 376 (23.98) | −12 | 306 (23.39) | 262 (26.17) | −14 | |||
| 3rd | 187 (22.89) | 139 (26.78) | −26 | 432 (24.16) | 370 (23.60) | −14 | 305 (23.32) | 236 (23.58) | −23 | |||
| 4th | 215 (26.32) | 145 (27.94) | −33 | 472 (26.40) | 389 (24.80) | −18 | 335 (25.61) | 249 (24.88) | −26 | |||
| PCI during hospitalization | 353 (43.21) | 242 (46.63) | −31 | 0.220 | 826 (46.20) | 633 (40.37) | −23 | 0.001 | 619 (47.32) | 420 (41.96) | −32 | 0.010 |
| Inhospital mortality | 45 (5.51) | 46 (8.86) | 2 | 0.018 | 69 (3.86) | 73 (4.66) | 6 | 0.253 | 60 (4.59) | 48 (4.80) | −20 | 0.814 |
| Hospital length of stay (days), mean (SD); median (p25 to p75) | 9.41 (8.03); 7 (5 to 11) |
7.11 (6.34); 5 (3 to 9) |
−24 | <0.001 | 8.88 (7.71); 7 (4 to 11) |
8.29 (7.21); 6 (4 to 10) |
−7 | <0.001 | 9.47 (9.63); 7 (4 to 11) |
8.03 (6.97); 6 (4 to 10) |
−15 | <0.001 |
Numbers indicate n (%) except if otherwise stated.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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