COVID-19 infections and outcomes in a live registry of heart failure patients across an integrated health care system

BACKGROUND: Patients with comorbid conditions have a higher risk of mortality with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection, but the impact on heart failure patients living near a disease hotspot is unknown. Therefore, we sought to characterize the prevalence and outcomes of COVID-19 in a live registry of heart failure patients across an integrated health care system in Connecticut.

METHODS: In this retrospective analysis, the Yale Heart Failure Registry (NCT04237701) that includes 26,703 patients with heart failure across a 6-hospital integrated health care system in Connecticut was queried on April 16th, 2020 for all patients tested for COVID-19. Sociodemographic and geospatial data as well as, clinical management, respiratory failure, and patient mortality were obtained via the real-time registry. Data on COVID-19 specific care was extracted by retrospective chart review.

RESULTS: COVID-19 testing was performed on 900 symptomatic patients, comprising 3.4% of the Yale Heart Failure Registry (N = 26,703). Overall, 206 (23%) were COVID- 19+. As compared to COVID-19-, these patients were more likely to be older, black, have hypertension, coronary artery disease, and were less likely to be on renin angiotensin blockers (P<0.05, all). COVID-19- patients tended to be more diffusely spread across the state whereas COVID-19+ were largely clustered around urban centers. 20% of COVID-19+ patients died, and age was associated with increased risk of death [OR 1.92 95% CI (1.33-2.78); P<0.001]. Among COVID-19+ patients who were ≥85 years of age rates of hospitalization were 87%, rates of death 36%, and continuing hospitalization 62% at time of manuscript preparation.

CONCLUSIONS: In this real-world snapshot of COVID-19 infection among a large cohort of heart failure patients, we found that a small proportion had undergone testing. Patients found to be COVID-19+ tended to be black with multiple comorbidities and clustered around lower socioeconomic status communities. Elderly COVID-19+ patients were very likely to be admitted to the hospital and experience high rates of mortality.

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2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

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PloS one - 15(2020), 9 vom: 30., Seite e0238829

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Englisch

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Caraballo, César [VerfasserIn]
McCullough, Megan [VerfasserIn]
Fuery, Michael A [VerfasserIn]
Chouairi, Fouad [VerfasserIn]
Keating, Craig [VerfasserIn]
Ravindra, Neal G [VerfasserIn]
Miller, P Elliott [VerfasserIn]
Malinis, Maricar [VerfasserIn]
Kashyap, Nitu [VerfasserIn]
Hsiao, Allen [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, F Perry [VerfasserIn]
Curtis, Jeptha P [VerfasserIn]
Grant, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Velazquez, Eric J [VerfasserIn]
Desai, Nihar R [VerfasserIn]
Ahmad, Tariq [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 07.10.2020

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

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10.1371/journal.pone.0238829

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