Nationwide analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in patients with a cardiovascular, oncological or chronic pulmonary disease in the context of an Eastern European country with a low vaccination rate, Bulgaria: March 2020-April 2022

Dimitrov G.,Valkov T.,Batselova H.,Kounchev O.,Momekov G.,Argirova R. · 2023

BMJ Open

Different Trends in Excess Mortality in a Central European Country Compared to Main European Regions in the Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020): a Hungarian Analysis

Bogos K.,Kiss Z.,Kerpel Fronius A.,Temesi G.,Elek J.,Madurka I.,Cselkó Z.,Csányi P.,Abonyi-Tóth Z.,Rokszin G.,Barcza Z.,Moldvay J. · 2021

Pathology and Oncology Research

Clinical Course and Mortality Predictors in Adult Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Infection—A Retrospective Cohort Study

Vesela Blagoeva; Vladimir Hodzhev; Petar Uchikov; Bistra Dobreva-Yatseva; Rumyana Stoyanova; Maritza Shterev; Samiya Atiq; Akanksha Prasad; Sriharini Shankar Babu · 2025

Medicina

Spatiotemporal inequalities of excess mortality in Europe during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

Igari A. · 2023

Regional Statistics

Comparison of vaccination and booster rates and their impact on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries

Matveeva O.,Shabalina S.A. · 2023

Frontiers in Immunology

Timing and Toll: Europe's Excess Mortality in the First Three Years of COVID-19

Marinkovic, Ivan · 2024

Population Research & Policy Review

Genomic Epidemiology and Lineage Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Bulgaria: Insights from a Three-Year Pandemic Analysis

Giovanetti M.,Cella E.,Ivanov I.,Grigorova L.,Stoikov I.,Donchev D.,Dimitrova R.,Slavov S.N.,Mavian C.,Fonseca V.,Scarpa F.,Borsetti A.,Korsun N.,Trifonova I.,Dobrinov V.,Kantardjiev T.,Christova I.,Ciccozzi M.,Alexiev I. · 2023

Viruses

What should be the baseline when calculating excess mortality? New approaches suggest that we have underestimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous winter peaks

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov; Ilya Klimkin; Martin McKee; Dmitri A. Jdanov; Ainhoa Alustiza-Galarza; László Németh; Sergey A. Timonin; Marília R. Nepomuceno; Evgeny M. Andreev; David A. Leon · 2022

What should be the baseline when calculating excess mortality? New approaches suggest that we have underestimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous winter peaks

Shkolnikov V.M.,Klimkin I.,McKee M.,Jdanov D.A.,Alustiza-Galarza A.,Németh L.,Timonin S.A.,Nepomuceno M.R.,Andreev E.M.,Leon D.A. · 2022

SSM - Population Health

COVID-19 mortality rate determinants in selected Eastern European countries

Sobczak M.,Pawliczak R. · 2022

BMC Public Health

Impact of COVID-19 on total excess mortality and geographic disparities in Europe, 2020-2023: a spatio-temporal analysis.

Pizzato M; Gerli AG; La Vecchia C; Alicandro G · 2024

The Lancet regional health. Europe

Mixed (multiple-genotype) Helicobacter pylori infections in Bulgarian patients.

Boyanova L; Boyanova L; Hadzhiyski P; Kandilarov N; Yordanov D; Gergova R; Markovska R · 2023

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Mortality impacts in Poland versus European Union

Kundzewicz Z.W.,Ebi K.L.,Duszyński J. · 2023

Risk Analysis

Sustained excess all-cause mortality post COVID-19 in 21 countries: an ecological investigation.

Pallari CT; Achilleos S; Quattrocchi A; Rahmanian Haghighi MR; Phan MT; Artemiou A; Bennett CM; Cuthbertson J; Zimmermann C; Schernhammer E; Vernemmen C; Nganda Mekogo S; Lobato JCP; Macedo L; Athanasiadou M; Mortensen LH; Critchley JA; Goldsmith LP; Denissov G; Le Meur N; Kandelaki L; Chikhladze N; Athanasakis K; Binyaminy B; Maor T; Caruso E; Ambrosio G; Martial C; Chan Sun M; Hagen TP; Barron M; Chong M; Łyszczarz B; Erzen I; Cernuda Martínez JA; Arcos González P; Burstrom B; Tao W; Huang Q; Polemitis A; Charalambous A; Demetriou CA · 2025

International journal of epidemiology

SARS-CoV-2 reinfections during the first three major COVID-19 waves in Bulgaria

Marinov G.K.,Mladenov M.,Rangachev A.,Alexiev I. · 2022

PLoS ONE

Regional excess mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries

Konstantinoudis, Garyfallos; Cameletti, Michela; Gomez-Rubio, Virgilio; Gomez, Inmaculada Leon; Pirani, Monica; Baio, Gianluca; Larrauri, Amparo; Riou, Julien; Egger, Matthias; Vineis, Paolo; Blangiardo, Marta · 2022

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Different patterns of excess all-cause mortality by age and sex in Hungary during the 2

Vince, Fazekas-Pongor; Zsófia, Szarvas; Norbert D, Nagy; Anna, Péterfi; Zoltán, Ungvári; Viktor J, Horváth; Szilvia, Mészáros; Adam G, Tabák · 2022

GeroScience

COVID-19 and excess mortality in Russia: Regional estimates of life expectancy losses in 2020 and excess deaths in 2021

Scherbov S.,Gietel-Basten S.,Ediev D.,Shulgin S.,Sanderson W. · 2022

PLoS ONE

Circulatory diseases and the wide sex and ethnic life expectancy gaps in Bulgaria since 2010.

Angelov A; Atanassov A; Atanasov V; Gyoshev S; Saraivanova J; Volodina V · 2024

Public health

Narrowing the gap in regional and age-specific excess mortality during the COVID-19 in Hungary

Tóth C.G. · 2022

Eastern Journal of European Studies