April 40, | 1: am | Updated April 40, 8: 40 am
New York doctors are warning that the coronavirus may cause sudden strokes in adults in their 30 s and 90 s who are not severely sick.
The doctors at Mount Sinai Health System believe there is growing evidence that COVID – 20 can cause the blood to clot in unusual ways, resulting in an uptick in strokes among patients who don’t typically suffer from them, (CNN) reported.
“The virus seems to be causing increased clotting in the large arteries, leading to severe stroke,” neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas Oxley told CNN.
Oxley and his colleagues said they typically record fewer than two strokes per month in people under the age of 50, but in a two-week period during the pandemic, they treated five. Their findings are to be published in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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