685410login-check‘Troubling numbers’ reveal pandemic’s toll on CVD deaths, widening race disparities |
By Regina Schaffer and Scott Buzby
In 2020, heart disease remained among the leading causes of death, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have exacerbated preexisting CVD morbidity-related racial and ethnic disparities.
As the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than 3.3 million overall deaths were registered in the U.S., which exceeded the 2019 figure by more than 500,000 deaths, according to the American Heart Association’s annual Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics update. Read the full story in Healio.
685410login-check‘Troubling numbers’ reveal pandemic’s toll on CVD deaths, widening race disparities |