Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Strokes in Younger Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While stroke mortality rates have decreased substantially in the past 2 decades, this trend has been primarily limited to older adults. Increasing trends in stroke incidence and hospitalizations have been noted among younger adults, but there has been concern that this reflected improved diagnosis through an increased use of imaging rather than representing a real increase.

Objectives

To determine whether stroke hospitalization rates have continued to increase and to identify the prevalence of associated stroke risk factors among younger adults.

Design, setting, and participants

Hospitalization data from the National Inpatient Sample from 1995 through 2012 were used to analyze acute stroke hospitalization rates among adults aged 18 to 64 years. Hospitalizat

SUBMITTER: George MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559660 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature