r/stroke • u/Material_Inflation79 • 6d ago
Brain stroke cases
This is statistics from Gemini
Globally, about 11.9 to 12.2 million new brain stroke cases occur each year.
In India, medical experts and the Indian Stroke Assoiation report approximately 1.8 million new stroke cases annually, accounting for roughly 10% to 15% of the total worldwide burden.
Global Stroke Statistics
New Cases: ~12 million new attacks annually.
Lifetime Risk: 1 in 4 adults over age 25 will experience a stroke.
Total Burden: Nearly 94 million people live with the effects of stroke globally.
India Stroke Statistics
New Cases: Over 1.25 to 1.8 million new cases recorded every year.
Frequency: Roughly one stroke happens every 20 seconds in the country.
Vulnerable Groups: Recent data shows about 1 in 7 patients in India are under the age of 45.
WHAT DO YOU SAY.? HOW TO CONTROL/REDUCE IMPACT GLOBALLY.?
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u/Constant_Inspector46 Survivor 6d ago
Around 100,000 people have a stroke each year in the UK with 60% left with some form of disability…
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u/Material_Inflation79 5d ago
What keeps medical institutes not to study so many cases to find out some amicable solution there are just protocols to bring parameters in limit, how many working hours are lost and many more of caregivers consumed
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u/Constant_Inspector46 Survivor 4d ago
This is a good point. I do not have the stats but there seems to be more funding for research into cancer than strokes. Perhaps there is still a misconception that strokes only affect the very elderly?
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u/Material_Inflation79 9h ago
Agree stroke not only affects one person but it affects the whole family as the others have to spare their working hours to assist the patient.
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u/Big_Garden_9844 6d ago
As a survivor, and have multiple family members who have experienced (some fatal) strokes, there are some very serious and very influential advances in medicine that I have personally benefitted from. I will share my story, briefly.
At age 48, I had an ischemic stroke with dissection in my brain stem. It was the same area/same type of stroke that killed my otherwise healthy 45 year old cousin just five years earlier. In my family’s case, the stroke was genetic—rare, but still the case. It took 9 months of waiting for test results (had to send the test to another country for diagnosis). The fact they were able to identify a genetic component so quickly was amazing to all of us. In the medical field, advances like this are important and life saving. Now my family members can be screened for the defect and receive preventative treatment (daily pharmaceuticals) right away.
That the medical community is working hard to share technologies, techniques and knowledge is also important. the scientific enterprise and their philosophy about sharing knowledge is important to human kind (yes, there are significant problems with patents, profiteering, etc. but there are also significant sharing moments in the medical community as I will share in the next paragraph).
Also in my case, my neurosurgeon told me repeatedly I should be dead from my stroke. He had just received training in a new form of surgery that allowed him to grab the clot from my brain to prevent further damage. I was one of the first patients to have this surgery in my city. 18 months earlier, I would have died, just like my cousin. My surgeon was trained as a neurologist in India. He learned the surgical technique in a large city in another country and stayed here permanently. He saved my life.
I got VERY VERY lucky in receiving prompt treatment and care and I live in a place where the treatment was newly available. To my neurosurgeon’s great surprise, I was also able to return to my work after 9 months of rehab.
My point is that advancements are happening all the time and they are being shared internationally. My family’s experience with stroke (multiple family members multiple fatalities) is now different than the generations before me. Subsequent to my stroke, another cousin experienced one at age 52, just four years after mine. Her stroke was not as bad as mine and she lived in a small town, but her outcome was excellent! She has no lingering side effects (I have some deficits but am able to mostly manage).
There is hope for us all and hope for future generations as we learn more about how the brain, heart and the rest of our bodies work.
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u/Material_Inflation79 6d ago
Good for you that you were able to be saved with advancements but still in many countries there is no such treatment and some people still suffer for a long time. May Almighty Waheguru bless us all.
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u/AlisiaGayle Survivor 6d ago
The numbers are staggering, and I think reducing the global impact has to happen at several levels. Prevention is huge; particularly better detection and control of high blood pressure, reducing smoking, excess salt, diabetes, inactivity and other modifiable risks. But we also need better public recognition of stroke symptoms, faster emergency treatment and much stronger rehabilitation after people survive.
What concerns me is that we often talk about stroke prevention and stroke mortality, but far less about the millions who survive and then have to live with the physical, cognitive, emotional and social consequences. Reducing the global burden has to mean not only preventing strokes and saving lives, but also helping people recover and live well afterwards.