Featured Article Academic Journal Main Category: Stroke Also Included In: Diabetes;Neurology \/ Neuroscience Article Date: 10 Oct 2012 - 15:00 PDT <\/p>\n
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First author Brett Kissela is from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He told the press the reason for the trend could be an increase in risk factors like diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol. <\/p>\n
But another reason, Kissela suggests, could be improved diagnosis, such as through increased use of MRI scans. <\/p>\n
Nevertheless, he says \"the rising trend found in our study is of great concern for public health because strokes in younger people translate to greater lifetime disability.\" <\/p>\n
For the study, the researchers looked at occurrences of first ever strokes in people aged from 20 to 54 in the Greater Cincinnati\/Northern Kentucky region over three separate, one-year periods. One period was between July 1993 and July 1994, and the other two were during the period 1999 to 2005. <\/p>\n
They found that the average age of a person experiencing a first ever stroke fell from 71 in the 1993-1994 period to 69 in the year 2005. <\/p>\n
\"Regression modeling showed a significant change over time (p = 0.002), characterized as a shift to younger strokes in 2005 compared with earlier study periods,\" write the researchers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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