Strokes hit COVID-19 patients especially hard, according to a new observational study published in Brain, Behavior & Immunity – Health. Researchers found that stroke patients who also have COVID-19 showed signs of increased inflammation, greater stroke severity and increased mortality.
The study’s authors tracked 60 ischemic stroke patients admitted to a single facility in Alabama from March to May 2020. All patients were tested for COVID-19 when first admitted, and nine patients tested positive. While 37.7% of the total cohort was Black, 55.6% of the patients who tested positive were Black.
Stroke patients with confirmed COVID-19 had higher National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores, and all patients with a NIHSS score higher than four—even those who did not have COVID-19—had a noticeably high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR).
The high NLR ratios, the authors wrote, suggest “an exaggerated inflammatory response” and has been previously linked to COVID-19 severity, refractory disease and mortality.
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September 19, 2020 at 12:00AM
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