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Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Dec 15;8:760265. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.760265. eCollection 2021.

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Avoidance of Health Care, Symptom Severity, and Mental Well-Being in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease.

Frontiers in medicine

Nathalie Maehl, Markus Bleckwenn, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Sebastian Mehlhorn, Stefan Lippmann, Tobias Deutsch, Anne Schrimpf

Affiliations

  1. Department of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
  2. Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health (ISAP), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
  3. Private Practice, Delitzsch, Germany.

PMID: 34977066 PMCID: PMC8714893 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.760265

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic affected regular health care for patients with chronic diseases. However, the impact of the pandemic on primary care for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who are enrolled in a structured disease management program (DMP) in Germany is not clear. We investigated whether the pandemic affected primary care and health outcomes of DMP-CAD patients (

Copyright © 2021 Maehl, Bleckwenn, Riedel-Heller, Mehlhorn, Lippmann, Deutsch and Schrimpf.

Keywords: Disease Management Program (DMP); SARS-CoV-2; angina pectoris; anxiety; coronary heart disease (CHD); depressive symptoms; primary care; treatment-seeking

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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