id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-312609-gv1khfmo Fatima, Nida Impact of COVID-19 on neurological manifestations: an overview of stroke presentation in pandemic 2020-08-06 .txt text/plain 1848 114 47 Therefore, the authors sought to determine the etiology, underlying risk factors, and outcomes among patients with COVID-19 presenting with stroke. Almost all of the patients presented had underlying risk factors predisposing to stroke which included diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and previous history of cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, we carried out a systematic review of all available literature on patients infected with novel COVID-19 presenting with stroke to determine the overall impact of this pandemic and outcomes among patients having neurological manifestations. Almost all of the patients had underlying risk factors predisposing to stroke which included diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and previous history of cerebrovascular disease. Our systematic review determined the underlying risk factors leading to stroke among COVID-19 patients, and outcomes among these patients. A recently conducted meta-analysis of 8 studies from China, including 46,248 infected patients, showed that the most prevalent comorbidities were hypertension (17%) and diabetes mellitus (8%), followed by cardiovascular diseases (5%) [18, 19] . ./cache/cord-312609-gv1khfmo.txt ./txt/cord-312609-gv1khfmo.txt