More Millennials Are Having Strokes Scientific American
- “2003 to 2012”
- “. . . stroke risk factors such as obesity, smoking and hypertension are growing among younger adults”
- “In western cities with more than one million residents, for example, the analysis found strokes increased about 85 percent during the 2003 to 2012 time period”
See also Vitamin D Life
Might it be some function of decreased levels of vitamin D, increased hypertension, increased obesity, or ??
- Overview Stroke and vitamin D
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection and 60,000 IU per month) – RCT Aug 2016
- Stroke 74% less likely if high vitamin D (7,295 women 20-50 years old) – July 2017
- Stroke rates increasing in youth and decreasing in elderly (perhaps due to Vitamin D) – Nov 2016
Note: Vitamin D levels have been increasing in elderly and decreasing in youths
Many more people now have vitamin D levels above 50 ng, especially seniors – May 2015
Items in BOTH Hypertension AND Stroke are:
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- Major heart problems avoided if have high vitamin D – 234,000 people Nov 2015
- Vascular dementia (after strokes) 32X more likely in Hypertensives with low vitamin D – Oct 2015
- Cardiovascular Disease and vitamin D – no proof yet – Sept 2015
- Cardiovascular Diseases and Vitamin D – Review Feb 2015
- Stroke is 13.5 X more likely if low vitamin D and high blood pressure – March 2015
- Vitamin D associated with 50 percent less ischemic stroke – meta-analysis Aug 2012