Friday, November 06, 2020

COVID-19 linked to worse stroke outcomes


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/ucl-clt110520.php

 

News Release 5-Nov-2020
University College London

 

People who experience strokes while infected with COVID-19 appear to be left with greater disability after the stroke, according a study led by UCL and UCLH researchers.

Having COVID-19 at stroke onset was also associated with more than double the mortality rate of other stroke patients, according to the findings published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

The researchers found evidence that people of Asian descent might be more likely to experience COVID-19-associated ischaemic strokes (those caused by blockage of blood vessels supplying the brain) than those in other groups in the UK.


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