Increase of Stroke Incidence in Young Adults in a Middle-Income Country

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Authors

Norberto L. Cabral

Aracélli Tavares Freire

Adriana Bastos Conforto

Nayara dos Santos · Hospital Municipal São José

Felipe Ibiapina dos Reis

Vivian Nagel

Vanessa Guesser · Hospital Municipal São José

Juliana Safanelli · Hospital Municipal São José

Alexandre Luiz Longo

Abstract

Stroke incidence is rising in young adults in Joinville, Brazil, because of increase in rates of ischemic but not hemorrhagic strokes. We urgently need better policies of cardiovascular prevention in the young.

Topics & Keywords

Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Stroke

Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 2925-2930

DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.117.018531

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