Stroke mortality during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: Is it getting any better?

Aristeidis H Katsanos¹, Georgios Tsivgoulis^{2

3}

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¹ Division of Neurology, McMaster University/Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
² Second Department of Neurology, "Attikon" Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

PMID: 34632660
PMCID: PMC8653107
DOI: 10.1111/ene.15135

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Stroke mortality during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: Is it getting any better?

Aristeidis H Katsanos et al. Eur J Neurol. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;28(12):3881-3882.

doi: 10.1111/ene.15135. Epub 2021 Oct 17.

Authors

Aristeidis H Katsanos¹, Georgios Tsivgoulis^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Neurology, McMaster University/Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
² Second Department of Neurology, "Attikon" Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

PMID: 34632660
PMCID: PMC8653107
DOI: 10.1111/ene.15135

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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV2; coronavirus; mortality; outcomes; stroke.

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