Young working professionals now at high stroke risk; Study founded
A team of researchers has found that Young working professionals are now on the verge of high stroke risk. Among young people who had a stroke, there was a significant increase in the proportion who were in more skilled occupations, particularly for professional or managerial jobs.
This could suggest a role for work-related stress, low physical activity, and long working hours, each of which was more strongly associated with the risk of stroke than a heart attack. The findings from the study published in the journal JAMA on ‘World Stroke Day 2022’, which analysed the rate of new stroke cases in Oxfordshire in the UK over the last 20 years, reflect emerging evidence that young stroke is a growing problem in high-income countries.
Stroke is a major health problem that can have devastating consequences. It happens when the blood supply to the brain is cut off, causing the death of brain cells and dysfunction in one or more parts of the brain.
The restricted blood supply can be the result of an artery supplying blood to the brain becoming blocked, a blood vessel rupturing causing a bleed inside the brain, or a brief reduction in the blood supply to the brain. The traditional view is that vascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, play a minor role in young stroke, but recent studies have begun to contradict this view.
