Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke: An Unanticipated Natural Experiment
The COVID-19 pandemic may have had dual effects on childhood AIS: an indirect protective effect related to public health measures reducing infectious exposure in general, and a deleterious effect as COVID-19 emerged as another respiratory virus that can trigger childhood AIS.
Authors
- Nancy K. Hills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1041-8182)
- Tracee Ridley-Pryor
- J. Michael Taylor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7008-4906)
- Neil Friedman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7349-7981)
- Paola Pergami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7503-2942)
- Mukta Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0041-2158)
- Catherine Amlie‐Lefond (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-503X)
- Michael Morgan Dowling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5058-6589)
- Ryan J. Felling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-9356)
- Melissa G. Chung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8567-9175)
- Rebecca Ichord (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6863-0274)
- Timothy J. Bernard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9767-5156)
- Nomazulu Dlamini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5927-3132)
- Andrea Pardo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5255-7976)
- Megan Barry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5256-8269)
- Lauren A. Beslow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0571-980X)
- Marcela Torres (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-4910)
- Gabrielle deVeber
- Philip J. Norris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-2088)
- Max Wintermark (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6726-3951)
- Mark Thomas Mackay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-1112)
- Lori C. Jordan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7240-0415)
- Heather J. Fullerton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4828-1687)
- Jenny L. Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6677-869X)
- Clara Di Germanio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-211X)
- Laura L. Lehman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6007-0356)
- Adam Kirton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5209-3374)
- Charles Grose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6884-6668)
- Christine K. Fox (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6934-3624)
- Shannon L. Carpenter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0644-1689)
- Warren David Lo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8079-8977)
- Dana D. Cummings (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4972-7879)
- Lisa R. Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4948-0415)
- Sarah Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8821-6636)
- Tim Bernard
- Michael Rivkin
Institutions
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- Pacific Research Institute (US)
- Department of Virology (FR)
- Vitalant (US)
- University of San Francisco (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Stroke
- Published
- 2025-04-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.124.049909
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.98