UK Study finds that young working professionals are at high risk of stroke

According to research published in the UK young working professionals are at an increased risk of suffering a strokeA team of researchers has found a sharp increase in the incidence of stroke in young adults especially among the working professionalsAmong young people who had a stroke there was a significant increase in the proportion who were in more skilled occupations particularly for professional or managerial jobsThis could suggest a role for workrelated stress low physical activity and long working hours each of which were more strongly associated with risk of stroke than heart attackThe findings from the study published in the journal JAMA on the World Stroke Day 2022 which analysed the rate of new stroke cases in Oxfordshire in the UK over the last 20 years reflect emerging evidence that young stroke is a growing problem in highincome countriesEstablishing the importance of known risk factors in young stroke will help to raise general awareness of the need for better control We also need better ways of identifying young people at high risk of stroke as current risk models are based on predictors of stroke in older people said Medical Research Foundation Fellow Dr Linxin Li from the University of OxfordStroke is a major health problem that can have devastating consequences It happens when the blood supply to the brain is cut off causing the death of brain cells and dysfunction in one or more parts of the brainThe restricted blood supply can be the result of an artery supplying blood to brain becoming blocked a blood vessel rupturing causing a bleed inside the brain or a brief reduction in the blood supply to the brainThe traditional view is that vascular risk factors such as high blood pressure diabetes and obesity play a minor role in young stroke but recent studies have begun to contradict this viewDr Lis research focuses on multiple types of stroke such as ischaemic strokes caused by a blockage of arteries ministrokes transient ischaemic attacks and bleeding in the brain intracerebral haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhageThe researchers found that between 20022010 and 20102018 there was a 67 per cent increase in stroke incidence among younger adults under 55 years and a 15 per cent decrease among older adults 55 years or olderA similar divergence in incidence was not found for other vascular events such as heart attacksHistorically weve thought of stroke as only affecting older adults but studies like this suggest a growing problem in young adults said Dr Angela Hind Chief Executive of the Medical Research FoundationStroke in young adults can have a huge impact often occurring when they are starting a family or already have young children to look after and have yet to reach the peak of their careers The economic social and personal consequences can be devastating Hind addedAlso ReadNutritionists decode the dos and donts for the diet of an expecting motherThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever