The members of the baby boom generation , so called because the people who make it up were born at a time when there was a significant increase in birth rates, between 1946 and 1964, after the Second World War, suffer fewer strokes than the of the one that happened, known as generation X. This brings together those born between 1965 and 1974, approximately.
A team of researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey has established that, for example, the incidence of ischemic stroke is considerably higher among those who came to the world before 1945 and those who did so during the two decades after 1954. For the On the contrary, it is lower in people who today are between 60 and 70 years old .
“The number of strokes has decreased since 1950, as a consequence of the advancement of medicine. However, we have found that this trend tends to be reversed in younger generations. Obesity, diabetes and other factors, such as not following treatments prescribed, appear to be related to an increase in cases, “said epidemiologist Joel N. Swerdel, who coordinated the study, in a statement. To determine this, Swerdel and his collaborators took into account 225,000 episodes, which occurred between 1995 and 2014.
In a trial published in the Journal of the American Heart Association , scientists note that the increased incidence of stroke in those born before 1945 is not surprising, since at that time there were no drugs capable of reducing blood levels. blood lipids, such as statins, or antihypertensive therapies. However, the fact that it is higher in those between the ages of 35 and 50 is alarming and deserves further investigation .
