Summary
Apart from COVID-19, Californians follow the same rhythm around cardiac diseases, cancer and other strains. But doctors say that the demos of a year in medical attention can provoke premature deaths and serious health problems.
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In his clinic in the Los Angeles area, Dr. Efraín Talamant recently visited three patients, all major adults with dementia, who had not visited their counselor in more than one year. Finally, lost in person, despite the fact that there were casualties, felt like a great victory. Pero a Talamantes the preoccupation that many patients have escaped from the grietas, pounding on their health to retrieve the attention of their sufferers during the pandemic.
“While we focus on recovery, we take care of those who are evacuated,” said Talamantes, “but we also have a concerted effort to manage the chronic illnesses that he did not receive the need for.”
Apart from COVID-19, the Californians murmured this year about similar cases in the majority of the main causes. A small number of people have died from the main cause of death, cardiac disease, and cerebrovascular accidents, while deaths from cancer are being treated immediately and in pre-emptive cases. An exception is a large increase in Alzheimer’s disease; approximately 11% more people die due to illness this year.
The medical and other experts in health predict that, in the near future, the deaths of one year in patients that may require medical attention may cause an increase in health conditions, late diagnosis and more severe deaths.
“Unfortunately, we see that we see some tragedies related to the retreats.”
Dr. Wiley Fowler, Dignity Health Oncologist at Sacramento
It is probable that the consequences will last longer in the high-risk color communities, as the Dr. Talentants, who are more likely to commit debit to the lack of medical attention. For patients with potentially fatal chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma, routine attention is essential.
While the coronavirus extends to California in the first instance, many people cancel their medical citations in person or their testers will temporarily close their ports. Telesalud visits will increase over the last few years, but many doctors and nurses will be able to work on a slipper. Suspended dental visits, mammograms and annual welfare checks.
Approximately a third of the Californians who had an urgent health problem related to COVID-19 and wanted to see a doctor not receiving attention, following a survey of 2,249 adults conducted by the California Health Care Foundation. The case of the victims is not receiving attention for its urgent physical health problem.
Sintiéndose can be more confident when it comes to receiving their vacancies against COVID-19, many Californians, especially the major adults, are finally giving up on their medical citations. Pero otros aún se staten quedando atrás en la attenci de rutina.
El Dr. Wiley Fowler, oncologist at Dignity Health and Sacramento, did not have a constant constant and las personas that regressed and los últimos dos meses. Peru the volume of his patient todavia is only 85% of what should be.
“There is a reason and foundation behind the recommendations for the follow-up intervals. We encourage people to get in touch with their doctors and procedures, ”he said.
“Unfortunately, we see that we see some tragedies related to the retreats.”
Main assessors
Approximately 48,000 more Californians will die in 2020 than in 2019, due in part to the 25,971 deaths attributed to the pandemic this year, according to state data. (January 2021 marks the most deadly death for COVID-19).
But cardiac diseases and cancer will follow the main causes of death in 2020.
Approximately 2,846 Californians increased the number of cardiac injuries this year in 2019, and 2,545 more than in 2018, an increase of approximately 4%, according to state data. Also, 917 more deaths due to cerebrovascular accidents than last year, an increase of 5%.
Despite the fact that visits to the emergency room without COVID-19 reduced the country by 42% in the first months of the pandemic, some experts theorize that people can be satisfied with the results of avoiding hospitals. cardiac and cerebrovascular accidents.
The deaths due to cancer are practically equalized, with a reduction of less than 1% in 2020 in comparison with the previous two years.
Without embarrassment, this status quo can be temporary: the National Cancer Institute predicts that retreats related to the pandemic in detection tests and treatment of maternal and colorectal cancers can only cause an excess of 10,000 deaths in los EE. UU. lasting 10 years. This is translated into approximately 1200 more deaths in California by these types of cancer. The experts say that a conservative estimate is due only to the return of six months to the attention, and the persons are posing the attention for the longest time.
“To find a mammogram pac the patient now enters because there are some and are waiting for the most advanced diagnosis in the course of the disease, which unfortunately means a lower probability of cure”, said Dr. Richard Bolde, Mrs. of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.
According to the Alzheimer’s hospital, 1,883 Californians passed away more than in 2019. If it is difficult to pinpoint the exact reasons, experts say they may have been impulsive with the Islamist and the abrupt closure of the support services with which depend on Alzheimer’s patients.
“We are all dealing with maintaining our mental health with technology, but there is always an option for these people,” said Elizabeth Edgerly, executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association, Northern California. “The physical contact will be lost: the vivian in congregations will be confined to their home”.
For some patients with cancer, “we are making the most advanced diagnosis in the course of illness, which unfortunately means a lower probability of cure”.
Dr. Richard Bold, Chief Physician of the UC Comprehensive Cancer Center
California also has an average of 12,000 “other” additional deaths, a category that includes some more than the 13 main screening centers by the Centers for Control and Prevention. State health officers are not available to explain why there are details prior to publication.
As an anecdote, Bold said he had watched as colleagues saw more serious injuries in the last three months.
I was able to tell that the people had retrieved the detection tests and other tests. During the first ordinance of permanence in the hogar of the state, the proofs of cervical cancer detection decrease by 80% by 1.5 million women in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California red, according to a study. When the order is lifted, the projections will be renewed, but will be between 24% and 29% more than in 2019.
Many children also suffer from medical visits.
As of March, there has been a steady decrease in the number of infants and children visiting the medical center or the median telesalud in the market of the Medi-Cal state program, which reaches residents of large areas. Antes, the visits habian ido in aumento, but can be drastically reduced as soon as the pandemic begins. For August, visits will be 40% compared to August 2019, according to preliminary data from the Department of Medical Attention and Human Services.
Regressing to the doctor’s office
Howard Dalton suspended his first colonoscopy last year. The 50-year-old Sacramento resident also took routine physical exams and dental visits.
The only attention in person that was sought during the past year is a routine song analysis that is required for anyone who has held the VIH for 20 years. But all this morning was the month of the month; It is simply not comfortable to be located in a living room with other people.
“I’m pretty obsessed with my health and I’m molested that it’s the stage in which I’m trapped, it’s probably been so far away,” he said.
Dalton recently received its first vaccine against COVID-19, which it has proportioned mentally. It is waiting for its second dose before thinking about regressing the medical consultation. Y, dijo, “probably will use a mask up to the nearest winter”.
Vet, the Davis Cancer Center, says it has no reason for patients to possess detection and other tests. Dijo that medical consultants are sure: the medical attention staff is on the vacant part, they are all willing to use a mask and the patients are examined to detect COVID-19 before entering a facility.
Talamentes, internist and director of the operations of AltaMed, says that its clinic in the Los Angeles area operates with a limited capacity to allow adequate security protocols. When spaces in person are available, reservations are made immediately.
AltaMed, a federal-level health care center, has been providing vacancies to patients and their families, and when it comes to vacancies, there are plans for welfare and dental care programs.
Last year, the AltaMed clinics approached approximately the center of the number of people with hypertension – high arterial pressure – which in previous years, said Talamantes. The preoccupation is that the treatment has returned to being converted into a more serious uncontrolled cardiac disease, which is affecting more vulnerable people such as COVID-19. Diabetes and obesity are both common infections among its patients that also need routine control and attention.
A positive lad, dijo Talamantes, is that some of his patients felt more in tune with his salute after experimenting with devastating losses in his families.
“If any of his family members (of COVID-19)’u menudo escuchamos’ bueno, no se cuidaron a sí mismos, estaban gorditos, if you need to be careful ‘”.
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