Stroke rates rise among adults younger than 55
Strokes are becoming a growing problem for adults before they reach middle age.
A new study shows that the number of adults under 55 who suffered a stroke climbed significantly over the past decade. The findings suggest many adults may want to start monitoring their heart health at earlier ages.
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Researchers reviewed a database of 1.3 million adults living in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky regions, looking to see the number of adults who suffered strokes between 1993 and 1994, and the 1999 and 2005 calendar years. They looked specifically at adults between the ages of 20 and 54, to see how stroke trends changed among this age group over the course of the study.
They found the average age people suffered a stroke fell from 71 between 1993-1994 to age 69 during 2005. A closer look showed that 13 percent of stroke sufferers were adults ages 20-54 during 1993-1994, but that number shot up to 19 percent for that age group during the 2005 calendar year.
The study also found the stroke rate in young adults increased in African-Americans from 83 strokes per 100,000 people in 1993-94 to 128 strokes per 100,000 in 2005. In Caucasians, the stroke rate climbed from 26 strokes per 100,000 people in 1993-94 to 48 per 100,000 in 2005.
"The reasons for this trend could be a rise in risk factors such as diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol," study author Dr. Brett Kissela, a professor of neurology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio, said in a written statement. He also said that increased use of MRI machines has led to better diagnosis of strokes. "Regardless, the rising trend found in our study is of great concern for public health," he noted.
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The research was published Oct. 10 in the online issue of Neurology.
"If patients start having their strokes younger, they will be left with many more years of having disability," Dr. Aviva Lubin, director of the stroke division at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City who was not involved in the study, told CBS News.
The researchers say modifying potential risk factors for stroke could curb risk among younger adults. Risk for stroke can be increased by high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, diabetes, being overweight and obese, physical inactivity, heavy drinking and illicit drug use, according to The Mayo Clinic.
"The good news is that some of the possible contributing factors to these strokes can be modified with lifestyle changes, such as diet and exercise," said Kissela. "However, given the increase in stroke among those younger than 55, younger adults should see a doctor regularly to monitor their overall health and risk for stroke and heart disease."
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Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States, taking 137,000 lives each year. About 795,000 Americans will suffer a new or recurrent stroke in 2012, according to the American Stroke Association -- about one stroke every 40 seconds.
According to the association, people should call 911 immediately at any signs of a stroke. Signs include the face drooping on one side, one arm drifting downward when trying to raise both, and slurred or strange speech.
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The GOP, in their lust to deregulate everything for their industry bribery-buddies, seems to forget that total self-regulation doesn't work too well, no more than we would let students grade their own exams. The bankers did "self-regulation" after our greedy Congress took the cops off the corner by killing Glass-Stegall, and look what happened.
Two percent of people are sociopaths, who Don't Care, and they are drawn to positions of power. You can't just take the cop off the corner and think they'll be good because they're wearing a suit.
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Or their gullet.
Note, though, equally rapid rises in cases of heart problems in children, children dying from heart attack, even the number of concussions children are experiencing.
To the extent that chemical indoctrination of food, and obesity, are mentioned, it should be added that Monsanto has been condemning alarms araised by a recent report on their NK603 genetically modified corn. the corn, Monsanto claims, was engineered to be resistant to effects of glyphosphate, found in some herbicides. If the corn does not die from exposure to the herbicides, it can tend to store some of it. And it has been reported that glyphosphate prevents fat turningn into energy. That means that, if you have glyphosphate in your system, you cannot reduce fat no matter how much you try!
The land stays, people come and go.
Banks hold the deeds.
In other advanced countries, and some not so advanced, laws work to protect people from corporate harm.
There they have standards which work to keep peoples health up.
In America laws are protecting the corporations for the harm they cause calling it free enterprise.
Heck they don't even want us to know what's in our food.
I've only recently become aware of products as
Meat Glue and Pink Slime....I can imagine there are others we haven't heard of.
Wall st isn't owning, they are just pimps.
It's the world banks that own everything and everyone in power.
That's why we always have influencial banking officials become advisors to Presidents.
We have been treated by the powerful elite as cows being led to the slaughterhouse.
Romney comes from the top, his idea to save America is to save the 1% from responsibility, and when the rest of us die, he'll save us through baptism.
Obama comes from slavery and Hawaii, he stands between the middle class and the abyss.
I think it would be best if the health food critics were not showcased unless they were backed by facts instead of constantly reporting highlight headlines "May Cause...", "May reduce..." And check the GPA's of those that are contributing these facts, too!
Analysis is no substitute for research. You cannot quantify human nutrition into a catalog. What works for some does not work for others. [Note I am the same weight as high school, 30+ years later]
The evidence that trans fat kills people is not a "maybe," it is definite. The data from the Nurses Health Study, which followed thousands of folks for years, tells us that 4 grams of trans fat per day roughly doubles a persons risk of heart attack.
As for GPA, you'll be glad to know I was valedictorian of my high school class and received a full ride at a top 10 college, so maybe you'll actually listen. But I doubt it.