COVID-19 patients at higher risk of stroke and heart attack: Circulation
Denmark: COVID-19 patients had a higher risk of developing AMI or ischemic stroke, 14 days after confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, suggests a recent study in the journal Circulation.
Daniel Modin, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark, and colleagues assessed the association between COVID-19 infection and the risk of ischemic stroke and AMI during the acute phase of infection using the self-controlled case series method.
For the purpose, the researchers conducted a registry-based study of all patients with a positive test for COVID-19 admitted to Danish hospitals up to July 16, 2020. The investigators identified all patients who were admitted with either a primary or secondary diagnosis of first-ever ischemic stroke or first-ever AMI up to 180 days prior to COVID-19 diagnosis and until July 16, 2020 using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes.
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