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Strokes are rising dramatically among young and middle-aged Americans while dropping in older people, a sign that the obesity epidemic may be starting to shift the age burden of the disease.
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Government researchers compared hospitalizations in 1994 and 1995 with ones in 2006 and 2007.
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I'd say at least half of our population (of stroke patients) is in their 40s or early 50s
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For every 10,000 hospitalizations in 1994-95 compared with 2006-07, strokes rose:-51 percent, from 9.8 to 14.8, among males 15 to 34 years old-17 percent, from 3.6 to 4.2, in females 15 to 34-47 percent, from 36 to 52.9, in males 35 to 44-36 percent, from 21.9 to 30, in females 35 to 44
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51 percent - was among men 15 through 34.
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