Cardiologist estimated mortality from cardiovascular diseases with COVID-19

cardiovascular diseases in coronavirus are variable even within the same country; Now in most countries of the world, the increase in deaths is approximately 10-12%, Sergey Boytsov, chief freelance cardiologist of the Russian Ministry of Health, said on Radio Russia.

“With an increase in mortality in some countries in the first wave, when there was a maximum increase in cardiovascular mortality, it reached 30% in one region, for example, in Brazil, and in some regions [there was] a threefold increase. If you look at a map of the United States, there is also variability in approximately the same ranges, ”he said.

The presenter asked Boytsov if he meant that somewhere the mortality had increased by 300%, the specialist answered in the affirmative, noting that this was in the first wave.

“But it was still a period of working out coding mechanisms. We are talking about coding the causes of death according to the ICD classification,” the cardiologist explained.

Then, according to him, "everything leveled out." “And in general, in most countries of the world, the increase is about 10-12 percent. That is, we did not reach this figure immediately,” he said.

Scientists have learned about the ability of COVID-19 to spread in organs for months Society