Recovery of cardiovascular testing in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the INCAPS COVID 2 study
The recovery of cardiovascular testing in Asia 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic lagged in the Southern and South-eastern subregions, as well as in lower-income countries. Recovery favoured advanced cardiac imaging modalities over standard stress testing modalities.
Authors
- Todd C. Villines (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-3702)
- Diana Páez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9268-0979)
- Amjed Albadr
- Ganesan Karthikeyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2073-2917)
- Chetan Patel
- João V. Vítola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4079-8478)
- Mohamad Haidar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6431-3274)
- Yaroslav Pynda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7213-4622)
- Phuoc Minh Hiep Nguyen
- Andrew D. Choi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-0428)
- Bin Lü (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1744-7584)
- Luca Bremner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4950-6793)
- Leslee J. Shaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1268-1491)
- Benjapa Khiewvan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1545-9781)
- Nathan Better
- Michelle C. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3556-2428)
- Tairkhan Dautov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5267-0108)
- Michael Randazzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7998-2582)
- Maurizio Dondi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2761-1859)
- Andrew Jeffrey Einstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2583-9278)
- Sharmila Dorbala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-1185)
- Damayanthi Nanayakkara
- Gulnora Rozikhodjaeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-9375)
- Thomas NB Pascual
- Fei Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0267-7819)
- Kathy Z. Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3732-2092)
- Nobuo Iguchi
- Rodrigo Cerci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-7181)
- Yosef Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-7244)
- Eli Malkovskiy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-7497)
- Shazia Fatima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0923-487X)
- Hee-Seung Henry Bom
- Francesco Gianmarile
Institutions
- University of Peradeniya (LK)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (AT)
- Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PK)
- Siriraj Hospital (TH)
- Harvard University (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- Mahidol University (TH)
- Baghdad Medical City (IQ)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Central Bank of Uzbekistan (UZ)
- Cho Ray Hospital (VN)
- University of Chicago Medical Center (US)
- Cabrini Hospital (AU)
- Centrus Diagnósticos por Imagem (BR)
- Mount Sinai Medical Center (US)
- American University of Beirut Medical Center (LB)
- National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (PH)
- Golisano Children's Hospital (US)
- Sakakibara Hospital (JP)
- National Heart Centre Singapore (SG)
- Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital (KR)
- Quanta Computer (China) (CN)
- Fu Wai Hospital (CN)
- Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute (UZ)
- University of Virginia (US)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
- Columbia University (US)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Heart
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2024-002935
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Pfizer
- International Atomic Energy Agency