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A Study on the Association Between Cerebrovascular Diseases (stroke) and Covid-19 Under the Pandemic Era

Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Stroke is a costly disease from human, family and societal perspectives. Its emergence in developing countries like Nigeria creates a burden for concern. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), on the other hand, has placed a tremendous strain on healthcare services. The global COVID-19 pandemic due to a novel coronavirus has to date infected and taken the lives of millions of people, resulting in a tremendous strain on healthcare services worldwide. Long recognized as a medical emergency, the added burden of possible association of COVID-19 with stroke is of greater concern to health experts. Emerging knowledge for the prevalence of this association prompted this study to review available data and offer empirical evidence on the subject to clinicians and the general public. The goals of the study are to determine whether infection with COVID-19 is associated with an increased incidence of stroke. To evaluate the relationship between COVID-19 disease and stroke incidence; the clinical episodes of 550 patients from 54 health care facilities in South-South Nigeria were randomly selected and analysed. The data were analysed using McNermar’s test and the Kaplan–Meier survival estimator. The result of the McNermar’s non-parametric analysis established a statistically significant interaction between COVID-19 diseases and acute stroke occurrences. The results of the Kaplan–Meier survival analysis of acute stroke patients and concomitant COVID-19 infection indicates a very low survival rate of patients infected with these two diseases. The study concluded that while stroke remains a medical emergency requiring swift medical and surgical intervention, the population must need also be continuously educated and reminded on the danger of COVID-19 associated stroke and the benefits of early hospital presentation of such occurrences. The study recommended protected code covid-19 and stroke protocol.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7217070940
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