Posted on 02/20/2008 10:06:57 PM PST by neverdem
my cousin had a stroke at the age of 31. She was a smoker, her parents were both smokers.
I join the class of Angry White Men as an Angry White Woman. : )
I wonder. (Smoking is not good). Women have smoked for many years. What kind of lifestyle did your cousin have?
It will probably take a decade or longer for the medical community to recognize the cause, but I predict Micro Vascular Disease (MVD) will be implicated in this trend.
"She used the National Health and Nutrition Surveys, a federally funded project that gives periodic health checkups and questionnaires to a wide sample of Americans. Participants are routinely asked whether a doctor had ever told them they had had a stroke, and about 5,000 middle-aged people answered that question in each survey."
Some strokes affect memory. There could be under reporting.
Most of these 'medicines' are a complete and utter fraud! They play games with the cholesterol number but do squat as far as real health/healing.
What meds?
I have a feeling that's exactly it, too. I have a friend who never smoked or drank, wasn't obese, but was on the pill for over thirty years. She got high blood pressure, phlebitis, and also had a stroke.
Whatever they are taking.
High Cholesteral, Blood Pressure, diet suppressants ect...
This would be the birth control generation, dontcha think?
Honestly, most people can't see a stroke coming. You're fine, then *bam*! - you're toast. If she had no risk factors, even a good doctor would've missed it.
And how many healthy people go to the doctor regularly? Yes, we get our colons checked out at 50 and breasts at 40 and the annual "girl" check-up, but other than that, we take the approach that if it ain't broke don't fix it.
I don’t think it’s all obsesity. A friend of mine had a stroke at 37, weighed 120 lbs and was a long time user (nonsmoker) of birth control. Just saying...
Well, they can’t blame this on the old Dimetapp.
Well, they can’t blame this on the old Dimetapp.
That is what I was wondering too. Those two hormonal medications may be the link, not belly fat.
At the risk of getting ‘super’ flamed for this one...environmental factors that could play into this study is the increased use of ‘bottled water’ and the xenoestrogens leached into the water.
See the National Exposure Report from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/environmental_phenols1.htm#FullText
Cindy McCain had a stroke in 2004, age 50. Fortunately she seems completely recovered now.
In Gary Taubes book, “Good Calories, Bad Calories” he points out that people on lowfat diets - yes, lowfat diets, have a greater risk for stroke. I think this was based on Japanese people, but still interesting. Anecdotal evidence here, and in my own life (my stepmom was a lowfat fanatic and had a stroke last year) points toward thin women, not heavier ones, having strokes. Doesn’t prove diddly, but it’s interesting.
You and me both!!
You may be more spot-on than you know.
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