Deans' stroke musings: U.S. stroke deaths on the rise after 4 decades of decline

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, January 9, 2023

U.S. stroke deaths on the rise after 4 decades of decline

And the strategy to reduce the deaths is simple. Stop the dying of millions/billions of neurons due to the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first days. This would also make it vastly more likely that existing stroke rehab will work to enable better recoveries.

U.S. stroke deaths on the rise after 4 decades of decline

Unless stroke prevention and treatment improves, total U.S. stroke fatalities will rise as the millennial generation ages, a new study has found.

Rutgers University researchers examined data that captured virtually all U.S. stroke deaths from 1975 to 2019 among people aged 85 years and younger. During that time period, deaths fell sharply per 100,0000 people, plummeting from 88 to 31 for women and 112 to 39 for men, the researchers reported.

The study also found a greater decline in ischaemic strokes (blocked blood vessels) than haemorrhagic strokes (leaking or burst vessels).

Hidden problem

But the positive trend has started to turn, investigators also discovered. Beginning in the last five years of the study, stroke mortality has more sharply increased with advancing age. This sets the stage for a growing number of adverse stroke events as a younger generation grows older, according to lead author Cande Ananth, PhD, MPH, of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

The study is the first to analyze stroke deaths by year of birth, the researchers noted. Starting around 1960, the risk of suffering a fatal ischemic stroke at any particular age began to rise with later birth dates, Ananth and colleagues reported. The reason for this may not be a mystery, they added.

“This study didn’t identify a cause for this trend, but other research suggests the main culprits are increasing rates of obesity and diabetes,” Ananth said.

New strategies needed

“After nearly four decades of declining stroke-related mortality, the risk appears to be increasing in the United States,” she concluded. “Our research underscores the need for novel strategies to combat this alarming trend.”

The millennial generation was born between 1981 and 1996 (between 27 to 42 years old in 2023), according to the Pew Research Center.

The study was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.