The Framingham Heart Study (Framingham, MA), for example, was established in 1948 at a time when heart disease and stroke were epidemic in the United States.
"Silent strokes are epidemic in this country," Dr. Megan C. Leary said.
Although stroke is a global epidemic, about 85% of all stroke deaths are registered in low- and middle-income countries, and patients in these countries also account for 87% of total stroke-related losses in terms of disability-adjusted life years [ 2].
We could fight poisoning and the obesity epidemic in one stroke.
In its wake comes an epidemic of heart disease and stroke, linked with high blood pressure and raised cholesterol levels.
And we have evidence in the last year or so that the rate of stroke has risen 35percentt in children 5 to 14, with epidemic obesity the only smoking gun on the scene to account for it.
Abbreviations: BSA, body surface area; ORISCAV-LUX, Observation of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Luxembourg; WC, waist circumference Obesity has become a worldwide public health epidemic, associated with numerous health problems including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Hypertension is prevalent in many developing countries [ 24- 28] and is the main driver of the cardio vascular disease (CVD) epidemic in Africa where it is a major, independent risk factor for heart failure, stroke and kidney failure [ 26].
In the past, fear coagulated around other ways of dying: infectious and epidemic diseases (plague, smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid fever); "apoplexies" (what we now call strokes and heart attacks); and, most notably in the nineteenth century, "consumption" (tuberculosis).
With an aging American population, our epidemic of at-risk individuals will only increase unless people take responsibility for avoiding heart attack, stroke, and dementia.
