UCHealth sees increase in number of young adults, particularly women, suffering strokes

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UCHealth sees increase in number of young adults, particularly women, suffering strokes
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DENVER — A stroke was the last thing 33-year-old Shyhesha Simmons thought would ever happen to her. Simmons, a single mom with three young children, is a vegan who works as a dispatcher for Kroger stores.“I make sure that Krogers and the King Soopers from Colorado , Wyoming, and Utah have their groceries every single day. So dealing with truckers, from the logistics to Krogers itself, making sure they get their loads every single day, 24 hours a day.

“We think that in older adults, there is a trend towards fewer strokes because perhaps we're doing better at preventing strokes. But in that same time period, we're seeing an increase in the number of strokes that are happening among young adults,' Dr. Poisson said. “We know more about stroke, and we have more information about medications that can help prevent stroke.

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