‘32% of those in hospital during 1st & 2nd waves cardiovascular patients’ | India News

Nearly one-third (32%) of the Covid-19 patients who required hospitalisation during the first and the second wave of the pandemic had a history of cardiovascular diseases, a study published in Global Heart, the official journal of World Heart Federation, has confirmed.
The most common CVD was coronary artery disease -afflicting 10.9% of all patients-followed by heart failure (5.5%), stroke (3.7%), arrhythmia (3.0%) and other CVDs, the study says. It is based on a prospective analysis of 5,313 patients in 23 countries, including 843 in India, from June 6, 2020 to Sept 15,2021.