Study associates stroke with COVID-19 in adults younger than 50Five COVID-19 patients in their 30s and 40s had large-vessel ischemic strokes from Mar 23 to Apr 7 in a New York City health system, more than five times what the system had been seeing every 2 weeks in the past year, according to a research letter published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.When admitted, the patients' mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score was 17 (scores range from 0 to 42, with higher numbers indicating more severe stroke).
One patient had previously had a stroke. Over the past year, the health system had seen only 0.73 patients in that age-group with large-vessel stroke every 2 weeks.Two patients delayed calling an