# Increased risk? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 30, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://avmsurvivors.org/t/increased-risk/24472 "2020-08-30T04:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![DickD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@DickD](https://avmsurvivors.org/u/DickD)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://avmsurvivors.org/t/increased-risk/24472/5 "2020-08-31T20:03:43Z")
@Gayilsmom Hi. I’m going to find a couple of links for you. The first I have is a link to the Association of British Neurologists advice, dating from 26 March as to the risk groups for coronavirus. It doesn’t seem to have been updated since. In that article, there is reference to increased risk of poor outcomes for people with cerebral palsy, so I _think_ that depending on whether an AVM has a significant impact on brain function, similar to cerebral palsy or some other neurological conditions, it _may_ indicate a need to be especially vigilant. The other resource list has been compiled by a moderator on one of the other Ben’s Friends patient communities. I’ll link that one separately. As TJ indicates, I don’t think that having a brain AVM increases the risk of _catching_ coronavirus; it may affect the _severity_ of the disease, if contracted. I also agree with Angela that the thing to do is to satisfy yourself about the protections being put in place at school. It is absolutely about risk _likelihood_ reduction, though. There is nothing that I know of that is current focussed on the reduction of the _impact_ of an infection. Make sense? > [@Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion](https://avmsurvivors.org/t/coronavirus-covid-19-discussion/23607/21): > > Yes, there is mention of higher risk with some neurological situations. I’ve found a decent guide here from the Association of British Neurologists. The link to the original web site is [here](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/centre-for-neuromuscular-diseases/) in case this document is replaced and the PDF link above starts not to work. A lot of it seems to be related to breathing and swallowing impairments, bulbar function or certain drugs used to treat (for example) epilepsy or immune response. Rather than me try to summarise what is in there, I can only su… Best wishes, Richard --- _[View the full topic](https://avmsurvivors.org/t/increased-risk/24472)._