Increase of Stroke Incidence in Young Adults in a Middle-Income Country [Clinical Sciences]

Background and Purpose—The incidence of stroke is on the rise in young adults in high-income countries. However, there is a gap of knowledge about trends in stroke incidence in young adults from low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to measure trends in incidence of ischemic stroke (IS) and intracerebral hemorrhage (IH) in young people from 2005 to 2015 in Joinville, Brazil.Methods—We retrospectively ascertained all first-ever IS subtypes and IH that occurred in Joinville in the periods of 2005 to 2006, 2010 to 2011, and 2014 to 2015. Poisson regression was used to calculate incidence rate ratios of all strokes, IS, and IH. We also compared the prevalence of risk factors and extension of diagnostic work-up across the 3 periods.Results—For 10 years, we registered 2483 patients (7.5% aged

Source: Stroke - October 23, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Norberto Luiz Cabral, Aracelli Tavares Freire, Adriana Bastos Conforto, Nayara dos Santos, Felipe Ibiapina Reis, Vivian Nagel, Vanessa V. Guesser, Juliana Safanelli, Alexandre L. Longo Tags: Epidemiology, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Ischemic Stroke Original Contributions Source Type: research