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Think You’re Too Young for a Stroke? Maybe Not!
A recent study finds that strokes in young people have nearly doubled over the past 30 years across five U.S. counties
Unfortunately, strokes are frequently mischaracterized as a health crisis that only needs to be worried about by older demographics. “I am too young for a stroke,” people tell themselves. “I don’t need to worry about this, I am only thirty,” they might say.
This type of thinking has always been flawed, as protecting your health in later years relies heavily on interventions done across a lifetime rather than late-stage changes to lifestyle.
More alarmingly, recent evidence indicates that younger people may actually be at risk, making this fallacious thought process even more dangerous as it can lead people to under-estimating the severity of symptoms.
What is a Stroke?
Before we get into the new data, let us first go over what exactly a stroke is. Strokes are a potentially fatal medical emergency in which central nervous tissues are not adequately supplied with oxygen due to a block or bleeding. These two kinds of stroke are called ischemic or hemorrhagic..
