Cardiovascular-related deaths increased dramatically in 2020, marking the largest single-year increase since 2015 and surpassing the previous record from 2003, according to the American Heart Association.
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest increases in cardiovascular disease deaths were seen among Asian, Black, and Hispanic people.
"We observed this sharp rise in age-adjusted CVD deaths, which corresponds to the COVID-19 pandemic," she says."Those of us health care providers knew from the overfull hospitals and ICUs that clearly, COVID took a toll, particularly in those with cardiovascular risk factors." The age-adjusted mortality rate also increased for the first time in several years, Tsao says, by a"fairly substantial" 4.6%. The age-adjusted mortality rate takes note of the changes in the aging population from year to year, accounting for higher death rates among older people.
"People from communities of color were among those most highly impacted, especially early on, often due to a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension and obesity," Michelle Albert, MD, the Heart Association's president and a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, saidAlbert, who is also the director of UCSF's Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease, does research in the area of health...
For the next several years, the Heart Association's Statistical Update will likely include more insights about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as ongoing disparities.
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