Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2021; 116(2): 283-284
Association of Cardiac Injury with Mortality in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
This Short Editorial is referred by the Research article "COVID-19 and Myocardial Injury in a Brazilian ICU: High Incidence and Higher Risk of In-Hospital Mortality".
Covid-19 disease emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. It is caused by the new coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the seventh coronavirus identified to date, which is different from other coronaviruses that cause pneumonia and common cold.Due to the greater and faster transmissibility, a pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020.
Since then, several studies worldwide have been conducted and published with the aim of determining the risk factors for developing the disease, as well as its complications, degrees of severity, treatment, morbidity, and mortality.
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