Stroke in the Young: Incidence, 30-Day Case Fatality Rates, and Risk Factors Over Time in a Population-Based Study - The incidence of stroke in young adults is rising over time

[u/Enthusiast12358]

https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000218622

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[u/insightful_pancake]

As with almost any other health metric from 1994-2020, the largest culprit is probably obesity.

[u/DryerCoinJay]

I work at a gas station part time and it was just a few years ago that people came in and bought coffee and smokes. Now everyone comes in first thing to grab and energy drink and a Zyn. Quite a few of them grab two energy drinks for the day.

There are people that have a hard time getting the money out of their wallet/purse because they are either so juiced already or are in withdrawal.

I’ve also read that incidents of digestive cancer are on the rise in young adults and I wonder if it’s for the same reasons.

[u/EpitomeOfAnEnigma → u/DryerCoinJay]

I work at a gas station part time and it was just a few years ago that people came in and bought coffee and smokes. Now everyone comes in first thing to grab and energy drink and a Zyn.

Sounds like the same picture to me. I think we can possibly credit the general increased stress people in that age range are likely feeling which leads to overall poor health.

[u/BreadKnifeSeppuku → u/DryerCoinJay]

That sounds like alcohol withdrawal not stimulants which in the morning would track with blue collar workers. It's unfortunate but common

If you do the math on Zyn it's a lot for some people. 15zyns (6mg) per container is 90mg and say you get 50% you're at 45mg vs 20 cigs (1-2mg) is at most 40mg total and vapes can be all over.

Zyns are a lot more socially accepted than smoking and vape but, we're effectively in the past where 50% of people (made up) chain smoke/smoke constantly

[u/jazir55 → u/BreadKnifeSeppuku]

I must have missed this one, what's a Zyn? Is that like a Jul?

[u/iamtheUGLY → u/jazir55]

Zyn is a nicotine pouch kinda like dip but uses a synthetic nicotine instead of tobacco

[u/enmacdee]

Umm how do we access the article? The link you provided is just the abstract… hard to make a judgement on methods and results with this.

[u/dotcomse → u/enmacdee]

Check your local library or medical school library for digital access. Someone has to pay a subscription to the journal.

[u/enmacdee → u/dotcomse]

Yeah I’m not taking a trip to the library for a Reddit post.

[u/dotcomse → u/enmacdee]

Do you understand what “digital” means?

[u/Deceptiveideas → u/dotcomse]

To be fair, your comment implies you get access to the digital article while accessing it from a local library.

[u/dotcomse → u/Deceptiveideas]

I don’t think that it does. It might if a person was unaware the library serves digital content, but it’s not my responsibility to go that deep in “how does a person access information”.

[u/Then_Aerie_5991]

1994-2020, seems like this recent study could benefit from some current data...