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‘Not just a respiratory illness’: New stroke data highlight the importance of COVID-19 vaccinations – Cardiovascular Business

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Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 appear to face a higher stroke risk than patients who have been treated for similar infectious conditions, according to new data being presented at the American Stroke Associations International Stroke Conference 2021.
The studys authors reviewed data from more than 20,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. All patients received care from January to November 2020. Overall, 1.4% of the cohort had an imaging-confirmed stroke during hospitalization. While 52.7% of those…

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