COVID-19 Linked To Risk Of Stroke In Healthy Young People Claims Study

A study conducted by the Jefferson University Hospitals in the US has claimed that healthy young people with no risk factors for stroke may have an increased risk of suffering a stroke if they have contracted COVID-19. "We were seeing patients in their 30s, 40s and 50s with massive strokes, the kind that we typically see in patients in their 70s and 80s,” said Pascal Jabbour, MD, Chief of the Division of Neurovascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery in the Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience – Jefferson Health and a senior author of the study. Dr Jabbour also said that the study is preliminary but it can serve as a warning to medical personnel battling the pandemic.