Advanced search
Publication Cover
Blood Pressure Volume 31, 2022 - Issue 1
Submit an article Journal homepage
2,774
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Covid-19 associated reduction in hypertension-related diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in Excellence Centers of the European Society of Hypertension

Thomas Webera Cardiology Department, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, AustriaCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Jaques Amarb Department of Hypertension, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
,
Tine de Backerc Cardiovascular Center, Heymans Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Gent, Gent, BelgiumORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4401-8766
ORCID Icon,
Thilo Burkardd Medical Outpatient Department and Hypertension Clinic, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
,
Marcus van der Giete Hypertension Centre Berlin, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
,
Philippe Gossef Unité Hypertension Artérielle, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
,
Andrzej Januszewiczg Department of Hypertension, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
,
Thomas Kahanh Department of Cardiology, Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
,
Giuseppe Manciai University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
,
Christopher C. Mayerj Health and Bioresources Division, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria
,
Maria Lorenza Muiesank Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Centro per la Prevenzione e Cura dell’ipertensione Arteriosa, University of Brescia and ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
,
George S. Stergioul Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
,
Konstantinos Tsioufism 1st Cardiology Clinic, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
,
Bernard Vaissen Service de Rythmologie et d’Hypertension, Pôle Cardiovasculaire et Thoracique, Marseille, France
,
Reinhold Kreutze Hypertension Centre Berlin, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
& Covid-19 Task Force of the European Society of Hypertension show all
Pages 71-79 | Received 11 Mar 2022, Accepted 18 Mar 2022, Published online: 23 Apr 2022

References

  • Kreutz R, Dobrowolski P, Prejbisz A, et al. Lifestyle, psychological, socioeconomic and environmental factors and their impact on hypertension during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. J Hypertens. 2021;39(6):1077–1089.
  • Onyeaka H, Anumudu CK, Al-Sharify ZT, et al. COVID-19 pandemic: a review of the global lockdown and its far-reaching effects. Sci Prog. 2021;104(2):368504211019854.
  • Ahmad FB, Anderson RN. The leading causes of death in the US for 2020. JAMA. 2021;325(18):1829–1830.
  • Parasa S, Reddy N, Faigel DO, et al. Global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on endoscopy: an international survey of 252 centers from 55 countries. Gastroenterology. 2020;159(4):1579–1581.
  • Gurney JK, Millar E, Dunn A, et al. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer diagnosis and service access in New Zealand-a country pursuing COVID-19 elimination. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2021;10:100127.
  • Colorectal Cancer COVID Research Collaborative. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on colorectal cancer service provision. Br J Surg. 2020;107:e521–e522.
  • Cacciamani GE, Shah M, Yip W, et al. Impact of covid-19 on the urology service in United States: perspectives and strategies to face a pandemic. Int Braz J Urol. 2020;46(1):207–214.
  • Ong MT, Ling SK, Wong RM, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on orthopaedic clinical service, education and research in a university hospital. J Orthop Translat. 2020;25:125–127.
  • Wong JSH, Cheung KMC. Impact of COVID-19 on orthopaedic and trauma service: an epidemiological study. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2020;102(14):e80.
  • Liebensteiner MC, Khosravi I, Hirschmann MT, Board of the AGA-Society of Arthroscopy and Joint-Surgery, et al. Massive cutback in orthopaedic healthcare services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2020;28(6):1705–1711.
  • Quigley M, Earnest A, Szwarcbard N, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on diabetes health care and service provision in Australian diabetes centers. Diabetes Care. 2021;44(8):e163–e164.
  • Fersia O, Bryant S, Nicholson R, et al. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiology services. Open Heart. 2020;7(2):e001359.
  • Mafham MM, Spata E, Goldacre R, et al. COVID-19 pandemic and admission rates for and management of acute coronary syndromes in England. Lancet. 2020;396(10248):381–389.
  • Ball S, Banerjee A, Berry C, et al. Monitoring indirect impact of COVID-19 pandemic on services for cardiovascular diseases in the UK. Heart. 2020;106(24):1890–1897.
  • Einstein AJ, Shaw LJ, Hirschfeld C, et al. International impact of COVID-19 on the diagnosis of heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021;77(2):173–185.
  • Hirschfeld CB, Shaw LJ, Williams MC, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. 2021;14(9):1787–1799.
  • The corona-virus disease 2019 pandemic compromised routine care for hypertension: a survey conducted among excellence centers of the European Society of Hypertension. J Hypertens. 2021;39:190–195.
  • University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. COVID-19 Government Response Tracker [Internet]. 2022 [cited 2022 Jan 15]; Available from: https://covidtracker.bsg.ox.ac.uk/stringency-map
  • Ferdinand KC, Vo TN, Echols MR. State-of-the-art review: hypertension practice guidelines in the era of COVID-19. Am J Prev Cardiol. 2020;2:100038.
  • Williams B, Mancia G, Spiering W, et al. 2018 practice guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Cardiology: ESH/ESC task force for the management of arterial hypertension. J Hypertens. 2018;36(12):2284–2309.
  • Stergiou GS, Palatini P, Parati G, et al. 2021 European society of hypertension practice guidelines for office and out-of-office blood pressure measurement. J Hypertens. 2021;39(7):1293–1302.
  • World Health Organization. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): herd immunity, lockdowns and COVID-19 [Internet]. Geneva (Switzerland): WHO; 2022 [cited 2022 January 15]; Available from: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19.
  • Murray CJ, Barber RM, Foreman KJ, et al. Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition. Lancet. 2015;386(10009):2145–2191.
  • Lopez AD, Mathers CD, Ezzati M, et al. Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet. 2006;367(9524):1747–1757.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.