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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2022

Comparative risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) following COVID-19 vaccination or infection: A national cohort study using linked electronic health records.

Columbus Ohaeri, Daniel Rhys Thomas, Jane Salmon, Simon Cottrell, Jane Lyons, Ashley Akbari, Ronan A Lyons, Fatemeh Torabi, Gareth Gi Davies, Christopher Williams

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Columbus OhaeriCommunicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6016-3245
Daniel Rhys ThomasCommunicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2426-5893
Jane SalmonCommunicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Wales, UK.
Simon CottrellVaccine Preventable Disease Programme and Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Wales, UK.
Jane LyonsPopulation Data Science, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Ashley Akbari
Ronan A LyonsPopulation Data Science, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5225-000X
Fatemeh TorabiPopulation Data Science, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5853-4625
Gareth Gi DaviesPopulation Data Science, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9005-1618
Christopher WilliamsCommunicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Wales, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5092-4987
Public Health Wales · GBSwansea University · GB

Funding

British Heart FoundationChief Scientist OfficeDepartment of HealthMedical Research Council MR/V028367/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To inform the public and policy makers, we investigated and compared the risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) after SARS-Cov-2 vaccination or infection using a national cohort of 2,643,699 individuals aged 17 y and above, alive, and resident in Wales on 1 January 2020 followed up through multiple linked data sources until 28 March 2021. Exposures were first dose of Oxford-ChAdOx1 or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed SARS-Cov-2 infection. The outcome was an incident record of CVST. Hazard ratios (HR) were calculated using multivariable Cox regression, adjusted for confounders. HR from SARS-Cov-2 infection was compared with that for SARS-Cov-2 vaccination. We identified 910,556 (34.4%) records of first SARS-Cov-2 vaccination and 165,862 (6.3%) of SARS-Cov-2 infection. A total of 1,372 CVST events were recorded during the study period, of which 52 (3.8%) and 48 (3.5%) occurred within 28 d after vaccination and infection, respectively. We observed slight non-significant risk of CVST within 28 d of vaccination [aHR: 1.34, 95% CI: 0.95-1.90], which remained after stratifying by vaccine [BNT162b2, aHR: 1.18 (95% CI: 0.63-2.21); ChAdOx1, aHR: 1.40 (95% CI: 0.95-2.05)]. Three times the number of CVST events is observed within 28 d of a positive SARS-Cov-2 test [aHR: 3.02 (95% CI: 2.17-4.21)]. The risk of CVST following SARS-Cov-2 infection is 2.3 times that following SARS-Cov-2 vaccine. This is important information both for those designing COVID-19 vaccination programs and for individuals making their own informed decisions on the risk-benefit of vaccination. This record-linkage approach will be useful in monitoring the safety of future vaccine programs.

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COVID-19Sinus Thrombosis, IntracranialBNT162 VaccineCohort StudiesCOVID-19 VaccinesElectronic Health RecordsHumansSARS-CoV-2VaccinationBNT162 VaccineCOVID-19 Vaccinescerebral venous sinus thrombosiscerebral venous thrombosiscoronavirusCOVID19vaccines

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