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More deaths from heart attacks during the first corona lockdown - doctor with urgent appeal

2020-11-13T16:59:51.084Z


Doctors in Hessen have analyzed deaths during the first lockdown from March to April 2020 - and come to a disturbing conclusion.


Doctors in Hessen have analyzed deaths during the first lockdown from March to April 2020 - and come to a disturbing conclusion.

Doctors have long warned not to cancel early detection examinations due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Many people are currently choosing to avoid visiting the doctor as much as possible - for fear of being infected with coronaviruses.

But this can have fatal consequences, for example with regard to cancer.

The rule here is: the earlier cancer is diagnosed, the better the chances of recovery.

If the cancer screening is delayed, it can even be life-threatening.

Quite a few doctors fear that the coronavirus pandemic will result in treatments starting too late *: "In the end, we will probably have more deaths because people delayed their therapies," warns Prof. Volker Ragosch from the Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Altona .

And the Covid-19 pandemic also has a negative impact on heart problems.

In an evaluation, German researchers came to the conclusion

that there were twelve percent more deaths from heart attacks during the lockdown in spring 2020

.

The medical professionals have a simple explanation.

1,977 people died of heart attacks, 320 of Covid-19

According to a picture report, the Hessian doctors had compared the deaths from 26 clinics, which were issued between March 23 and April 26, 2020, with the deaths in the previous year.

Out of a total of almost 6,000 deaths, 1,977 deaths were due to heart attacks -

twelve percent more than in the previous year, when 208 fewer people died of heart attacks

.

According to the study, 320 people died of Corona during the first lockdown in spring.

Professor Holger Nef, Deputy Director at Giessen University Hospital and first author of the study, said in an interview with a picture: “During the first lockdown phase, patients followed the advice to stay at home.

As a result, however, heart problems were delayed and treated too late, if at all. "Nef appeals:" We have noticed an increase in deaths from heart disease in the first lockdown phase.

Therefore:

Take complaints seriously and go to the doctor or to the emergency room

. ”

(Jg)

 *

Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network

.

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