Deans' stroke musings: Number of stroke deaths worldwide could reach nearly 5 million by 2030

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, June 19, 2023

Number of stroke deaths worldwide could reach nearly 5 million by 2030

Note this is ischemic, not even counting hemorrhagic stroke deaths. What is your hospitals 30 day stroke death rate?

“What's measured, improves.” So said management legend and author Peter F. Drucker

They don't care enough to even measure it?

Number of stroke deaths worldwide could reach nearly 5 million by 2030

The number of deaths around the world due to ischemic stroke is expected to increase significantly in the years ahead, according to new research published in Neurology.[1] In fact, researchers anticipate the number could jump from the 3.29 million deaths seen in 2019 to 4.9 million deaths in 2030.

The study’s authors evaluated Global Health Data Exchange information to explore stroke mortality around the world from 1990 to 2019. They also used that same data to predict stroke mortality in the future. The authors noted that smoking, kidney dysfunction, a sodium-rich diet, and higher blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, or body mass index (BMI) were all associated with a heightened stroke risk. By focusing on these factors, they explained, it is easier for policymakers and public health officials to guide the development of interventions and preventive strategies that target high-risk populations.

“This increase in the global death toll of ischemic stroke along with a predicted further increase in the future is concerning, but ischemic stroke is highly preventable,” co-author Lize Xiong, MD, of Tongji University in Shanghai, China, said in a prepared statement. “Our results suggest that a combination of lifestyle factors like smoking and a diet high in sodium along with other factors such as high blood pressure and high BMI can lead to an increased risk of stroke.”

Xiong et al. did note that the worldwide stroke rate has actually decreased over time, dropping from 66 per 100,000 people in 1990 to 44 per 100,000 people in 2019. However, the population has increased so much during that time that the total number of deaths is still expected to rise.

Read the full study in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, here.