Atlanta: Middle-aged people in the United States are more likely to die from stroke than in the past two decades, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Increased chances of death from stroke in middle-aged people
According to the report, after a decade of reduction in rates, the rate of stroke death among people aged 45 to 64 began to increase in 2012. By 2019, stroke deaths in this age group had increased by 7% compared to seven years earlier, and a further 12% in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stroke deaths in this age group have declined slightly in 2022, but are still significantly higher than before Covid.
In 2022, more than 19,700 people aged 45 to 64 died due to stroke. About 24 deaths occurred per 100,000 people in this age group.
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States overall, and most strokes occur in people aged 65 and older. Earlier research had shown that Covid-19 infection increases the risk of stroke in people of all ages.
Sally Curtin, from the CDC's National Center for Health and the author of the new report, said that the long-term increase in stroke mortality in middle-aged people is in contrast to the declining trend seen in the elderly and elderly over the past decade.
He said that racial disparities in stroke mortality rates are much higher in middle-aged adults than in older people.
Black people aged 65 years and older were found to have a 24 percent higher stroke death rate than white elderly people. In people aged 45 to 64, the rate was 133 percent higher in black people than in white people.
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