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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.29.e109781</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">109781</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Arterial Hypertension (артериална хипертония)</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>How COVID-19 affected the control of hypertension and comorbitities in one cardiological outpatient practice in Bulgaria?</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Gruev</surname>
            <given-names>I.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">ivangruev@yahoo.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Tsanova</surname>
            <given-names>V.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">NMTH “Tsar Boris III”, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>NMTH “Tsar Boris III”</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">МС “Bororla”, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>МС “Bororla”</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: I. Gruev (<email xlink:type="simple">ivangruev@yahoo.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Yoto Yotov</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>20</fpage>
      <lpage>24</lpage>
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      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>19</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>07</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>I. Gruev, V. Tsanova</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>COVID-19 pandemic affected directly and indirectly the healthcare system in Bulgaria in a very negative manner. The hospitals were flooded with COVID cases and patients were afraid to attend even the outpatient clinics. That resulted in increased mortality and poor control of cardiovascular diseases. We studied the results from the mandatory annual examinations of hypertensive patients in one cardiological outpatient practice in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2021 and 2022. The results showed low level of attendance by the patients in 2021 and poor control of hypertension and comorbidities, that continued even in the post-covid year – 2022.</p>
      </abstract>
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