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The rates of incidence, prevalence and death from stroke were up to 10 times higher in low and middle income countries of East and Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to poorly controlled high blood pressure, and rising levels of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in young adults, and also underfunded heath systems.
“Strokes generally happen to lower income workers and not so much the affluent people,” said Dr Derk Krieger, a neurologist at Fakeeh University Hospital. “A lot of my patients are Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers on the roads or in the construction business.
“They have very hard lives, and get strokes earlier than I would anticipate in Europe. When I do angiograms, we often see they have horrible vascular disease. They are young people, but they don't take care of themselves.”
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