Persistent decline of hospitalizations for acute stroke and acute coronary syndrome during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece: collateral damage unaffected.
Christos KatsourasGeorgios K TsivgoulisMichail PapafaklisTheodore KarapanayiotidesDimitrios AlexopoulosEvangelos NtaisGeorgia PapagiannopoulouIoanna KoutroulouAntonios ZiakasGeorgios SianosAntonios KouparanisParaskevi TrivilouChristos BallasIoanna SamaraMaria KosmidouLina PalaiodimouNikolaos GrigoriadisLampros K MichalisSotirios GiannopoulosPublished in: Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders (2021)
AS and ACS hospitalizations were persistently reduced during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with 2019 in Greece. This decline was similar to the observations during the first wave despite the large differences in the epidemiological COVID-19 burden. Lockdowns, a common characteristic in both waves, appear to have a detrimental indirect impact on cerebro/cardiovascular diseases in the general population.