Disease-Specific Excess Mortality During the Covid-19 Pandemic

An Analysis of Weekly US Death Data for 2020

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ID11028633
AuthorsDongshan Zhu (0000-0002-0697-7432, Dongshan Zhu is with the Centre for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, and the NHC Key Lab of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, China. Akihiko Ozaki is with the Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, and the Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Salim S. Virani is with the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of...), Akihiko Ozaki (0000-0003-4415-9657, Dongshan Zhu is with the Centre for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, and the NHC Key Lab of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, China. Akihiko Ozaki is with the Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, and the Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Salim S. Virani is with the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of...), Salim S Virani (0000-0001-9541-6954, Dongshan Zhu is with the Centre for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, and the NHC Key Lab of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, China. Akihiko Ozaki is with the Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, and the Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Salim S. Virani is with the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of...)
Year2021
Volume111
Issue8
Pages1518-1522
Publication date2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2021.306315
PMID34185569
OpenAlexW3175393950
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

Objectives. To examine the disease-specific excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Methods. We used weekly death data from the National Center for Health Statistics to analyze the trajectories of excess deaths from specific diseases in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the national level and in 4 states, from the first to 52nd week of 2020. We used the average weekly number of deaths in the previous 6 years (2014–2019) as baseline. Results. Compared with the same week at baseline, the trajectory of number of excess deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) was highly parallel to the trajectory of the number of excess deaths related to COVID-19. The number of excess deaths from diabetes mellitus, influenza and respiratory diseases, and malignant neoplasms remained relatively stable over time. Conclusions. The parallel trajectory of excess mortality from CVD and COVID-19 over time reflects the fact that essential health services for noncommunicable diseases were reduced or disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the severer the pandemic, the heavier the impact

Baseline (sea) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Diabetes mellitus · Disease · Environmental health · Excess mortality · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Pandemic · Population · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Climate Change and Health Impacts · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Demography · Internal Medicine · Medicine