Atlanta: According to a new report by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, middle-aged people in the US are more likely to die of stroke than in the past two decades.
After a decade of declining rates, the rate of stroke deaths among people ages 45 to 64 began to rise in 2012, according to the report. By 2019, the death rate from stroke in this age group had increased by 7% compared to seven years earlier, and had increased by another 12% during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Deaths from stroke in this age group have declined slightly in 2022 but are still significantly higher than pre-Covid.
According to a new report, more than 19,700 people aged 45 to 64 died in 2022 due to stroke. About 24 deaths per 100,000 people occurred in this age group.
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States overall, and most strokes occur in people age 65 and older. Previous research has shown that Covid-19 infection increases the risk of stroke in people of all ages.
Sally Curtin, of the CDC’s National Center for Health and an author of the new report, says that the long-term increase in stroke death rates among middle-aged people over the past decade is similar to that seen in the elderly and the elderly. is the opposite of the decreasing trend.
He said the racial disparity in stroke death rates is greater among middle-aged adults than among older adults.
Among blacks aged 65 and older, the stroke death rate was 24 percent higher than that of white seniors. Among 45- to 64-year-olds, the rate was 133 percent higher among blacks than among whites.
