Table 2 Time-related differences in incidence of selected CVDs.

From: Sex-stratified patterns of emergency cardiovascular admissions prior and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Overall distribution (regardless of sex, N = 8744)

Variable

Class

Year: 2019

Year: 2020

Year: 2019

Year: 2020

No stratification corrections

Generalized CMH (adjusted for stratification by sex)

count (n)

count (n)

frequency (%)

frequency (%)

χ2

p

OR

OR {− 95% CI}

OR {95% CI}

χ2

p

OR

OR {− 95% CI}

OR {95% CI}

ACS

ACS

1530 (1496.24)

1414 (1447.76)

34.43

32.88

2.34

0.1265

1.76

0.1842

No ACS

2914 (2947.76)

2886 (2852.24)

65.57

67.12

Arrhythmia

Arrhythmia

911 (9319)

921 (900.91)

20.50

21.42

1.11

0.2910

0.92

0.3385

No arrhythmia

3533 (3512.91)

3379 (3399.09)

79.50

78.58

PE

PE

114 (131.12)

144 (126.88)

2.57

3.35

4.69

0.0304

1.316

1.026

1.689

4.47

0.0346

1.308

1.019

1.678

No PE

4330 (4312.88)

4156 (4173.12)

97.43

96.65

AHF

AHF

527 (446.74)

352 (432.26)

11.86

8.19

32.60

 < 0.00001

0.663

0.575

0.764

32.29

 < 0.00001

0.664

0.576

0.765

No AHF

3917 (3997.26)

3948 (3867.74)

88.14

91.81

Other CVDs

Other CVDs

1362 (1438.81)

1469 (1392.19)

30.65

34.16

12.33

0.0005

1.174

1.073

1.284

11.53

0.0007

1.169

1.068

1.278

ACS/arrhythmia/PE/AHF

3082 (3005.19)

2831 (2907.81)

69.35

65.84

Subset distribution (sex: female, N = 3333)

Variable

Class

Year: 2019

Year: 2020

Year: 2019

Year: 2020

χ2

p

OR

OR {− 95% CI}

OR {95% CI}

Count (n)

Count (n)

Frequency (%)

Frequency (%)

ACS

ACS

454 (431.76)

415 (437.24)

27.42

24.75

3.08

0.0793

No ACS

1202 (1224.24)

1262 (1239.76)

72.58

75.25

Arrhythmia

Arrhythmia

393 (398.47)

409 (403.53)

23.73

24.39

0.20

0.6573

No arrhythmia

1263 (1257.53)

1268 (1273.47)

76.27

75.61

PE

PE

53 (60.12)

68 (60.88)

3.20

4.05

1.74

0.1873

1.278

0.887

1.843

No PE

1603 (1595.88)

1609 (1616.12)

96.80

95.95

AHF

AHF

168 (155.51)

145 (157.49)

10.14

8.65

2.20

0.1381

0.838

0.664

1.059

No AHF

1488 (1500.49)

1532 (1519.51)

89.86

91.35

Other CVDs

Other CVDs

588 (610.13)

640 (617.87)

35.51

38.16

2.53

0.1120

1.121

0.974

1.291

ACS/arrhythmia/PE/AHF

1068 (1045.87)

1037 (1059.13)

64.49

61.84

Subset distribution (sex: male, N = 5411)

Variable

Class

Year: 2019

Year: 2020

Year: 2019

Year: 2020

χ2

p

OR

OR {− 95% CI}

OR {95% CI}

Count (n)

Count (n)

Frequency (%)

Frequency (%)

ACS

ACS

1076 (1069.14)

999 (1005.86)

38.59

38.09

0.15

0.7010

No ACS

1712 (1718.86)

1624 (1617.14)

61.41

61.91

Arrhythmia

Arrhythmia

518 (530.7)

512 (499.3)

18.58

19.52

0.77

0.3787

No arrhythmia

2270 (2257.3)

2111 (2123.7)

81.42

80.48

PE

PE

61 (70.59)

76 (66.41)

2.19

2.90

2.76

0.9684

1.334

0.948

1.876

No PE

2727 (2717.41)

2547 (2556.59)

97.81

97.10

AHF

AHF

359 (291.63)

207 (274.37)

12.88

7.89

35.86

 < 0.00001

0.580

0.484

0.694

No AHF

2429 (2496.37)

2416 (2348.63)

87.12

92.11

Other CVDs

Other CVDs

774 (825.94)

829 (777.06)

27.76

31.61

9.57

0.0020

1.202

1.070

1.351

ACS/arrhythmia/PE/AHF

2014 (1962.06)

1794 (1845.94)

72.24

68.39

  1. Numbers in ‘()’ brackets indicate expected (estimated) counts. Significant odds ratios (ORs) are marked in bold.