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Journal of the American College of Cardiology. pii: S0735-1097(22)04561-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.03.348

Worldwide Disparities in Recovery of Cardiac Testing 1 Year Into COVID-19.

Einstein AJ¹, Hirschfeld C², Williams MC³, Vitola JV⁴, Better N⁵, Villines TC⁶, Cerci R⁷, Shaw LJ⁸, Choi AD⁹, Dorbala S¹⁰, Karthikeyan G¹¹, Lu B¹², Sinitsyn V¹³, Ansheles AA¹⁴, Kudo T¹⁵, Bucciarelli-Ducci C¹⁶, Nørgaard BL¹⁷, Maurovich-Horvat P¹⁸, Campisi R¹⁹, Milan E²⁰, Louw L²¹, Allam AH²², Bhatia M²³, Sewanan L²⁴, Malkovskiy E²⁵, Cohen Y²⁶, Randazzo M²⁷, Narula J²⁸, Morozova O²⁹, Pascual TNB³⁰, Pynda Y³¹, Dondi M³², Paez D³³

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BACKGROUND: The extent to which health care systems have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide necessary cardiac diagnostic services is unknown.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the pandemic on cardiac testing practices, volumes and types of diagnostic services, and perceived psychological stress to health care providers worldwide.

METHODS: The International Atomic Energy Agency conducted a worldwide survey assessing alterations from baseline in cardiovascular diagnostic care at the pandemic's onset and 1 year later. Multivariable regression was used to determine factors associated with procedure volume recovery.

RESULTS: Surveys were submitted from 669 centers in 107 countries. Worldwide reduction in cardiac procedure volumes of 64% from March 2019 to April 2020 recovered by April 2021 in high- and upper middle-income countries (recovery rates of 108% and 99%) but remained depressed in lower middle- and low-income countries (46% and 30% recovery). Although stress testing was used 12% less frequently in 2021 than in 2019, coronary computed tomographic angiography was used 14% more, a trend also seen for other advanced cardiac imaging modalities (positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance; 22%-25% increases). Pandemic-related psychological stress was estimated to have affected nearly 40% of staff, impacting patient care at 78% of sites. In multivariable regression, only lower-income status and physicians' psychological stress were significant in predicting recovery of cardiac testing.

CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac diagnostic testing has yet to recover to prepandemic levels in lower-income countries. Worldwide, the decrease in standard stress testing is offset by greater use of advanced cardiac imaging modalities. Pandemic-related psychological stress among providers is widespread and associated with poor recovery of cardiac testing.

KEYWORDS: COVID-19, cardiac testing, cardiovascular disease, coronavirus, global health

Publikations ID: 35589162
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