CVD mortality rose significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic and persists 2+ years on and, once again, Black and African Americans have been disproportionately affected, an analysis of death certificates shows.
in 2018 and 2019 and the pandemic years 2020 and 2021. Baseline demographics showed a higher percentage of older, female, and Black individuals among the CVD subtypes of interest.
When the investigators looked at deaths on a yearly basis with 2018 as the baseline, they found CVD deaths increased by 1.5% in 2019, 15.8% in 2020, and 13.5% in 2021 among Black Americans compared with 0.5%, 5.1%, and 5.7%, respectively, among white Americans. The"most striking difference" was in excess stroke mortality, which doubled among Blacks compared with whites in 2020 and in 2021 , according to the authors.Although the disparities were expected,"there is clear value in documenting and quantifying the magnitude of these disparities," Amil M.
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