Clinical Course and Mortality of Stroke Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

No studies have reported the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic on patients with preexisting stroke. We aim to study the clinical course of COVID-19 patients with preexisting stroke and to investigate death-related risk factors.

Methods

We consecutively included 651 adult inpatients with COVID-19 from the Central Hospital of Wuhan between January 2 and February 15, 2020. Data on the demography, comorbidities, clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, treatments, complications, and outcomes (ie, discharged or death) of the participants were extracted from electronic medical records and compared between patients with and without preexisting stroke. The association between risk factors and mortality was estimated using a Cox pr

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7434009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature