News-Medical.Net October 9, 2024
Researchers confirm a strong link between COVID-19 and stroke risk, emphasizing the urgency for further investigation into prevention and treatment strategies.
*Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.
In a recent research paper uploaded to the medRxiv preprint* server, researchers undertook a metaumbrella review comprising 34 systematic reviews and 70 primary studies to elucidate the risk associations between SARS-CoV-2 infections and stroke.
Odds ratio equivalents (eOR) analysis revealed a strong association between the severity of COVID-19 infections and subsequent risk of stroke (eOR = 2.48), with hemorrhagic stroke (eOR = 3.86) and ischemic stroke (eOR = 2.48) depicting the...
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