Short-term and long-term stroke risk following SARS-CoV-2 infection in relation to disease severity: a Danish national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Studies have reported high incidences of stroke in patients hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2, but the impact of disease severity is unexplored. We aimed to estimate the risk of incident ischaemic stroke in SARS-CoV-2 test-positive individuals compared with test-negative individuals stratified by disease severity during acute infection and post infection.

Design

A register-based cohort study.

Setting

A Danish nationwide study.

Participants

All Danish adults who had PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 performed between 1 March 2020 and 30 November 2021. Test-positive individuals were included at their first positive test. For individuals tested prior to 30 November 2021, we randomly sampled an index date from the distribution of test dates among SARS-CoV-2 test-posit

SUBMITTER: Schade Skov C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11253730 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature