Yvonne Honigsberg had a stroke at 41 while running on the treadmill at her gym.
She was unable to speak, but people at the fitness center saw her distress and called 911.
Strokes have risen steadily among people in the United States under the age of 45 since 1995, along with risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
But treatment is improving and many, like Honigsberg, can go on to live independently.
“There’s been a massive change in stroke care in the last five years,” Alexander A. Khalessi, chairman of neurological surgery at the University of California San Diego Health, told Heathline. ( I disagree completely, I see NO progress. Notice the word 'care', not results. This laziness is why stroke problems never get addressed.)
During a stroke, part of the brain is deprived of blood.
Once, hospitals could only provide blood thinning medicine, the sooner the better. Now, there are surgical interventions possible during the stroke and afterward — better ways to help patients restore their functioning.

More young survivors

About 10 percent of all strokes in the United States occur among people 18 to 50 years old.
From 2003 to 2012, hospitalizations of women ages 35 to 44 for acute ischemic stroke, the most common kind, rose by 30 percent and 41 percent for men in that age range.
Childhood obesity may be pushing strokes at even earlier ages.
In that same nine-year period, strokes among U.S. women ages 18 to 32 also jumped by a third and by 15 percent for men.
With decades ahead of them, young stroke survivors face all the usual challenges of nurturing love and purpose while maintaining their health and finances.
“Unrecognized depression is a key issue in getting back to their lives,” Khalessi told Healthline. “People need appropriate psychiatric care.”
In a key Dutch study of 18- to 50-year-old adults hospitalized for stroke between January 1980 and November 2010, nearly 45 percent had “poor functional outcome,” after an average of almost 14 years of life post-stroke.
But that also means that more than half were doing better.
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