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cord-032820-l0vkq0j3	Mohamed, Sherif	Incidence and pathophysiologic mechanisms of stroke in the COVID-19 pandemic: the dilemma	2020-09-29		.txt	text/plain	1620	99	53	BACKGROUND: While COVID-19 pandemic affected more than 26 million people worldwide, still, the definite link between COVID-19 and incidence of stroke remains to be re-evaluated. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in different ways, negative impacts on care of stroke patients worldwide, and still, many challenges are faced by neurologists to improve care of stroke patients during such crisis. Another explanation may come from the observation that air pollution is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease; we had seen a strikingly reduced air pollution during the pandemic secondary to lockdown; this phenomenon could have a protective effect against stroke [4] . From our experience, it was observed that the presence of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in patients with SARS-CoV-1 or MERS-CoV was associated with worse outcomes. Cerebrovascular disease is associated with an increased disease severity in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pooled analysis of published literature	./cache/cord-032820-l0vkq0j3.txt	./txt/cord-032820-l0vkq0j3.txt