Cardiovascular diseases burden in COVID-19: Systematic review and meta-analysis

  1. Amirhossein Hessami
  2. Amir Shamshirian
  3. Keyvan Heydari
  4. Fatemeh Pourali
  5. Reza Alizadeh-Navaei
  6. Mahmood Moosazadeh
  7. Saeed Abrotan
  8. Layla Shojaie
  9. Sogol Sedighi
  10. Danial Shamshirian
  11. Nima Rezaei

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.022
  2. Version published to 10.1101/2020.04.12.20062869v2 on medRxiv
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variableData extraction included first author name, publication year, country and following data extracted for each group (Total Sample, ICU, Non-ICU, Mortality, Survival): Sample size, mean ± standard deviation (SD) of age, number of females, number of males, heart failure, hypertension, other cardiovascular disease, acute cardiac injury, cardiomyopathy, myocardial damage, heart palpitation, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia and acute cardiac injury.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    A systematic search was using all available MeSH terms and free keywords for “COVID-19”, “Cardiovascular Disease” “Myocardial Infarction”, “Heart Failure”, “Hypertension”, “Myocarditis”, “Arrhythmia”.
    MeSH
    suggested: (MeSH, RRID:SCR_004750)
    Searched Databases included PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, medRxiv pre-print database as well as Science Direct search engine.
    PubMed
    suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)
    Embase
    suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)
    Cochrane Library
    suggested: (Cochrane Library, RRID:SCR_013000)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Limitation of this study was high heterogeneity of studies in population. Compounding effects of other co-morbidities in ICU admission and mortality was not being considered. It is possible that other co-morbidities related to respiratory system, renal system and gastrointestinal system affects patient’s condition. Cardiovascular implications could be pre-existing in patients or either developed by the infection; so, we could not determine the casual relationship. However, given the burden and vital role of CVDs the importance does not differ. We only included studies of hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients and asymptomatic and outpatients are excluded. Data regarding to cardiovascular diseases in COVID-19 patients in some countries were missing.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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  4. Version published to 10.1101/2020.04.12.20062869v1 on medRxiv