Stroke in Young Populations
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March 29th, 2021
Black young adults face higher stroke risk than their white peers (heart.org)
American Heart Association — Black young adults are almost four times more likely than their white counterparts to have a stroke, according to new research. Yet regardless of race, the risk of having a stroke at a younger age increased as blood pressure rose.
March 16th, 2021
Young adults have strokes for the same reason as older adults (heart.org)
American Heart Association — “We tend to have this clinical bias that if a person has a stroke at a young age, it is rare, or it must be from some atypical cause,” said lead study author Dr. Tracy Madsen, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
October 6th, 2020
As stroke rates rise among younger adults, nearly 1 in 3 don’t know symptoms (heart.org)
American Heart Association —Each year, 10% to 15% of the nearly 795,000 people in the United States who have a stroke are between the ages of 18 and 45. And despite a decline in the general population, stroke rates – and hospitalizations for it – have increased by more than 40% among younger adults in the past several decades.
September 8th, 2020
Young women may face greater stroke risk than young men (heart.org)
American Heart Association — “We have this sense of security that women don’t have as many strokes because estrogen in premenopausal women can be protective for cardiovascular events, but that’s a false assumption,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Michelle Leppert, an assistant professor of neurology at University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora.
April 22nd, 2020
Coronavirus can increase stroke risk in young adults: (nydailynews.com)
New York — Doctors at Mount Sinai Health System in New York are warning the public of another risk associated with coronavirus: the possibility that the virus can cause sudden strokes in patients under the age of 50, even those who only seem to have a mild case of COVID-19.