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Stroke hospitalisations among Americans under 45, particularly teenage boys and men under 34, rose dramatically between 1994 and 2007 but fell among older people, said a study on Wednesday.
Researchers said they could not speculate on the cause, since the study only examined the number of hospitalisations across age and gender, but that the results merit further investigation of obesity and high blood pressure.
'I believe this is the first large study to report these findings, stratified by age and gender,' said Xin Tong, a health statistician with the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
'We cannot link anything in particular to the trend in younger patients, but I believe the role of obesity and hypertension will prompt a big discussion. Unfortunately, right now we can't speculate on the causes.' CDC analysts found that stroke numbers had declined by 25 per cent in men and by 29 per cent in women over age 45.
But the good news ended there. The number of hospitalisations for ischemic stroke - a stroke caused by a vessel blockage that interferes with blood flow to the brain - rose 51 per cent in boys and men age 15 to 34. The rate among girls and women age 15 to 34 rose 17 per cent in the same period.
When it came to men age 35-44, they saw a 47 per cent increase in stroke hospitalisations and a 36 per cent increase among women of the same age group
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