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.”
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.
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]
[+] [-] ZeroGravitas|4 years ago|reply
> “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?
[+] [-] unsupp0rted|4 years ago|reply
> 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.
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[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21898534/
[1] https://text.npr.org/467222400
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