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Stroke Rates Are Increasing Among Young People

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This seems to be a misleading clickbait headline (with NPR repeating the headline from the original source), this quote is from the source of the numbers:

> “Overall, these data are positive - the incidence of stroke has remained stable or declined in age-standardized measures across the U.S.,” Leasure said. “However, when we look by year, during the past five to 10 years of the study period, incidence of stroke has started to level out, and we are not seeing the same steep decrease as during the 1990s. Some of our progress in decreasing stroke incidence and death appears to be plateauing.”

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/u-s-stroke-rate-declining-in...

I'm not sure how to square those two things, potentially there's just more people aged under 50 than there used to be, so more strokes, but not more strokes per capita? Or a demographic bulge getting older and into the prime stroke years? Possibly just a stupid mistake because rates in young people (by which they mean under 50) were increasing in some areas, but not others? Possibly more strokes, because less people are dying from their first stroke and go on to have more?

I wondered if this uptick was recent within the last couple years and it's not:

> The findings stemmed from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study, which is a peer-reviewed, large-scale assessment of global health trends

> Over the past 30 years, stroke incidence among adults 49 and younger has continued to increase in Southern states and the Midwest, the American Heart Association said in February. Rates have declined for those older than 75.

Probably has something to do with the dramatic increase in prevalence of obesity and diabetes throughout the USA over the same period

Or it's the vaccines.

First, the data source for the article is from 2019, so neither the recent vaccine situation or COVID-19 would be represented in the data set. Second, your comment is needlessly narrow and focuses on the vaccines being a potential cause, ignoring a wealth of evidence that the virus itself causes notably worse outcomes than the vaccine does.

The increasing stroke incidence rate was occurring long before the vaccines were introduced, read the article.

It's not like they would manipulate the data or anything. Why didn't we hear about this two years ago? How convenient. There is currently more data supporting vaccines causing strokes, see VAERS, then not. Pro football players collapsing on the field, celebrities, fainting on live tv, uptick in miscarriages. It's not like we are being unreasonable in asking why. The burden of proof is assuring us that they are safe, which for many of us has not yet been reached.

The data from the article was sourced from a study, and I quote: "Global Burden of Disease 2019". Before the pandemic. Read the article.

COVID is doing great damages to the young generations. We'll see the consequences of right wing politicans' disastrous public health policy in decades to come.

This article is describing an increased trend in young adult strokes that has been happening for at least 25 years.[0] It "closely followed an increase in several chronic conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and lipid disorders."[1]

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21898534/

[1] https://text.npr.org/467222400

What are those policies ?

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