Short-Term Outcomes of Acute Stroke During COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity in the United States: The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology Multicenter Collaboration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic communities, whose stroke care has been previously shown to experience existing disparities. We sought to evaluate how these disparities in stroke care and in-hospital mortality have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

In this retrospective observational cohort study, we evaluated stroke hospitalizations in the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology COVID-19 registry. We compared stroke characteristics between non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic patients pre-COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 (March-July 2019 versus March-July 2020) and evaluated whether racial and ethnic differences present before the pandemic were exacerbated during the pandemic. Our primary o

SUBMITTER: Zha AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12778854 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature