Relative Bradycardia in Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Coronavirus Disease, Japan

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 10; pp. 2504 - 2506
• Main Authors: Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko, Saito, Makoto, Yamamoto, Shinya, Nagai, Hiroyuki, Adachi, Eisuke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.10.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis; Bacterial infections; Betacoronavirus; Blood pressure; Body Temperature; Bradycardia; Bradycardia - virology; Cardiac arrhythmia; Communicable diseases; coronavirus disease; Coronavirus Infections - complications; Coronavirus Infections - diagnostic imaging; Coronavirus Infections - physiopathology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Cytokines; Disease; Enzymes; Expedited; Female; Fever; Heart Rate; Humans; Hypotheses; Japan; Male; Medical ethics; Medical records; Middle Aged; mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease; Pandemics; Patient Acuity; Pneumonia, Viral - complications; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnostic imaging; Pneumonia, Viral - physiopathology; relative bradycardia; Relative Bradycardia in Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Coronavirus Disease, Japan; Research Letter; Retrospective Studies; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Tomography; Viral infections; Young Adult; Japan; China; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; viruses; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Japan; relative bradycardia; coronavirus disease; coronaviruses; bradycardia; mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease; respiratory infections

Coronavirus disease is reported to affect the cardiovascular system. We showed that relative bradycardia was a common characteristic for 54 patients with PCR-confirmed mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease in Japan. This clinical sign could help clinicians to diagnose this disease.