PMID: 1209788Jan 1, 1975Paper

Stroke before fifty. Experiences from a five-year study

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
G Frithz, I Werner

Abstract

Thirty-seven patients below the age of 50, with an acute first-time cerebrovascular lesion have been studied. Some form of predisposing factor was present in nearly all cases. There was a remarkably high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease among the parents of the stroke victims. Only 50% of the patients with hypertension known prior to the stroke had received adequate treatment. There were six females on oral contraceptives. The immediate mortality, i.e. within one month, was 35% essentially caused by a very high initial mortality among patients with cerebral haemorrhage. The patients were checked after 30 months. At this time, 16 patients were still alive and 11 able to perform some sort of work. Among the survivors there was a high incidence of diabetes and impaired glucose metabolism, to judge from intravenous glucose tolerance tests. The chances of survival and vocational rehabilitation seem to be fairly good, compared with higher age groups, thus urgently calling upon the resources of the community for active therapeutic measures and training. Individuals with hypertension and impaired glucose tolerance, with heredity for vascular disease and diabetes seem to be especially at risk for early stroke. Hea...Continue Reading

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Jun 27, 1959·British Medical Journal·J MARSHALL, D A SHAW

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Jul 1, 1986·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·O LidegaardM V Andersen
Jan 1, 1978·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·A B GrindalJ R Taylor
Apr 25, 2009·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·Katie DanielChristopher McKevitt

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