You can read all the depressing statistics at the article. The existing stroke world is totally unprepared for the coming tsunami of strokes.
A couple of select paragraphs.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/42451
In 2010, there were 16.9 million people who had a first stroke, 33
million stroke survivors, and 5.9 million people who died from a stroke
-- increases of 68%, 84%, and 26% respectively since 1990, according
to Valery Feigin, MD, of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, and colleagues.
If those trends continue, there will be an estimated 12 million
stroke deaths, 70 million stroke survivors, and more than 200 million
DALYs lost globally each year by 2030, with low- and middle-income
countries bearing the brunt of the problem, they noted.
Another analysis by Feigin's group published in The Lancet Global Health
showed that hemorrhagic -- and not ischemic -- stroke accounted for
the majority of the worldwide burden of deaths and disability-adjusted
life years lost due to stroke.
This will mean that objective diagnosis will become even more important and research into bleeders will need to speed up.
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