Higher stroke risk linked to asymptomatic COVID-19 in younger menMen under 50 recovering from asymptomatic COVID have double the likelihood of acute ischemic strokes (AIS) compared with men of the same age without COVID infection, according to a study last week in JAMA Network Open.Eighteen South Asian men were treated in Singapore for AIS a median of 54.5 days after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
Twelve (67.7%) had no known pre-existing risk factors. While AIS is a known neurologic complication from symptomatic COVID-19, none of these men experienced respiratory symptoms during their infection.Median stroke severity was a 5 on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (those with a score lower than 4 are highly likely to have good