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Atypical risk factors appear to play an important role in younger stroke patients. You can find out what these are here.
According to information from the Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk (SWR) In Germany, a person suffers a stroke approximately every two minutes. The condition does not only occur in older people: one in seven stroke patients is younger than 50 years. Typical risk factors for life-threatening cardiovascular disease include high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or coronary heart disease (CHD). As the Doctor’s newspaper reported, non-traditional risk factors appear to be more important when it comes to the risk of stroke in young adults.
Stroke risk in young adults increased by non-traditional risk factors
Recent study results have shown that young adults have an increased risk of stroke even without the typical risk factors. The results leave one on that study by researchers from the USA and Finland conclude. This was published in the trade journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes published. For their study, the scientists analyzed data from 2,600 stroke patients and 7,800 people without a stroke between the ages of 18 and 55.
The analysis of the data showed that people aged 18 to 44 with the following atypical risk factors had a higher risk of a stroke than participants without these previous illnesses:
- migraine
- Coagulation disorders
- Kidney failure
- Autoimmune diseases
- Cancer diseases
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Study on stroke risk in young adults: Migraine is the most important non-traditional factor
Especially in the group of people under 35, non-traditional risk factors had a greater influence than typical factors. Migraine emerged as the most relevant atypical risk factor. The previous illness was considered to be the cause of a stroke in 20 percent of men and 35 percent of women. However, the importance of non-traditional risk factors appears to decrease again after the age of 45. In the group of 45 to 55 year olds, high blood pressure was the most important factor.
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