Stroke rate increased 85 percent in young women in large cities in the Western US in a decade

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

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  • 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:

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