Doctors told, who are more prone to stroke.
Doctors found that among young people who have experienced stroke at a young age, the majority abuse alcohol and cigarettes.
A study conducted in 2007, showed that nearly 5 percent of people who suffered a stroke that year were aged 18 to 44 years.
It is possible that since that time the stroke more “younger”. In this study, doctors from the Universities of Cincinnati and Kentucky focused on the patients who suffered a stroke before the age of 55 years.
They reviewed medical records, including blood and urine tests, test results and other documents to 1,200 stroke patients.
More than half of young people who have suffered a stroke were smokers, while one in five took drugs.
13 percent used drugs or alcohol within 24 hours before the stroke.
And given the fact that not all patients were measured level of alcohol or prohibited substances in the blood upon admission to the hospital, and certainly not all of them admitted that they had consumed the night before.
“The level of drug abuse, particularly drug abuse, is almost certainly an underestimate, because the toxicology tests were not done for all patients,” said Professor of neurology at school of Medicine of the University of Maryland Stephen Kittner.
