Question reference: S5W-30272
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 26 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 July 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of heart valve disease as an underlying cause of a number of COVID-19-related (a) complications and (b) deaths.
Answer
Our analytical partners across the Scottish Government - National Records of Scotland, Public Health Scotland and the national health service - are working together to consider how we can better understand the impact of Covid-19 on people in Scotland with heart disease and other health conditions.
Public Health Scotland Statistics on the impact of COVID-19 can be found at: https://scotland.shinyapps.io/phs-covid-wider-impact/ .
Public Health Scotland statistics on heart valve operations is available at: https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/conditions-and-diseases/heart-disease-and-blood-vessels/heart-disease-statistics/ .