More Millennials Are Having Strokes Scientific American
- “2003 to 2012”
- “. . . stroke risk factors such as obesity, smoking and hypertension are growing among younger adults”
- “In western cities with more than one million residents, for example, the analysis found strokes increased about 85 percent during the 2003 to 2012 time period”
See also VitaminDWiki
Might it be some function of decreased levels of vitamin D, increased hypertension, increased obesity, or ??
- Overview Stroke and vitamin D
- Ischaemic stroke – Vitamin D doubled survival (Injection followed by monthly 60,000 IU) – RCT Aug 2016
- Stroke 74% less likely if high vitamin D (7,295 women 20-50 years old) – July 2017
- Stroke rates increasing in youth and decreasing in elderly (perhaps due to Vitamin D) – Nov 2016
Note: Vitamin D levels have been increasing in elderly and decreasing in youths
Many more people now have vitamin D levels above 50 ng, especially seniors – May 2015
Items in BOTH Hypertension AND Stroke are:
- Stroke 3 times more likely if dark skin woman has Hypertension before age 35 - Feb 2024
- COVID and CVD deadly pandemics share a risk factor: low vitamin D - April 2022
- Vitamin D deficiency associated with increased risk of many health problems in 58,000,000 Americans - Nov 2020
- Increased health problems in blacks is similar to that of low vitamin D whites (John Singleton Stroke)
- MAGNESIUM IN MAN - IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND DISEASE – review 2015
- Major heart problems if have less than 15 ng of Vitamin D – Nov 2015
- Vascular dementia (after strokes) 32X more likely in Hypertensives with low vitamin D – Oct 2015
- Cardiovascular Disease and vitamin D – no proof yet – Sept 2015
- Cardiovascular Diseases and Vitamin D – Review Feb 2015
- Stroke is 13.5 X more likely if low vitamin D and high blood pressure – March 2015
- Vitamin D associated with 50 percent less ischemic stroke – meta-analysis Aug 2012