A couple of bits of bad news for younger stroke survivors.
First, a look at this article.
My interpretation: Young people who have insomnia are at a much higher risk of stroke. And by much higher I mean more than 8 times the risk.
That's valuable information. But. There's a not-so-subtle intimation that a lot of young stroke survivors complain about. Namely, that young people are out doing drugs (and other bad things) which keep them awake.
The second bit of bad news
There's a new article out with a not-so-subtle name "Poor Long-Term Functional Outcome After Stroke Among Adults Aged 18 to 50 Years." Its bottom lines may come as some surprise to clinicians: many young survivors stroke survivors struggle with everyday tasks.
After 10 years, 1 in 8 patients (12.9%) was not able to function independently.
When interviewed the author's seem to suggest that, young survivors often don't show severe outward signs of problems related to stroke. For instance, they would struggle much less with walking than older survivor. But that does not mean that these everyday tasks are not problems. One author Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Ph.D., put it this way "Even if patients seem relatively well recovered with respect to motor function, there may still be immense 'invisible' damage that leads to loss of independence."
I've heard this before from young survivors. People will come up to then say "You look great!" And they think to themselves, "I don't feel great."
One interesting note: Almost all the popular press has reported that this article suggests that "one-third" of young stroke survivors are having problems. I've read the article. It's one in eight. I'm not great at math. I'm pretty sure that's not one third.
There's a new article out with a not-so-subtle name "Poor Long-Term Functional Outcome After Stroke Among Adults Aged 18 to 50 Years." Its bottom lines may come as some surprise to clinicians: many young survivors stroke survivors struggle with everyday tasks.
After 10 years, 1 in 8 patients (12.9%) was not able to function independently.
When interviewed the author's seem to suggest that, young survivors often don't show severe outward signs of problems related to stroke. For instance, they would struggle much less with walking than older survivor. But that does not mean that these everyday tasks are not problems. One author Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Ph.D., put it this way "Even if patients seem relatively well recovered with respect to motor function, there may still be immense 'invisible' damage that leads to loss of independence."
I've heard this before from young survivors. People will come up to then say "You look great!" And they think to themselves, "I don't feel great."
One interesting note: Almost all the popular press has reported that this article suggests that "one-third" of young stroke survivors are having problems. I've read the article. It's one in eight. I'm not great at math. I'm pretty sure that's not one third.
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I've read the article a few weeks ago (it's a Dutch study and I'm from the Netherlands.) My first reaction was that they were looking at the negative side, because the majority is independent.
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