A new dimension to the STEMI-related mortality risk seen in the COVID-19 pandemic era

Correspondence on ‘Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank’ by Raisi-Estabraghet al

“…Lin et al attributed the prehospital delay to fear of contracting COVID-19 infection 2. This was a fear also expressed by a number of patients in a narrative review of the association of COVID-19 and STEMI-related ventricular septal rupture 4…”