Several French regions have death rates from stroke significantly higher than the national average. This is the case in particular for the overseas regions.
The number of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) is twice as high as that of heart attacks. As a result, nearly 130,000 French people are victims each year of these accidents which are characterized by a lesion of part of the brain, sometimes fatal. And in this hexagonal assessment, many regional disparities appear in the death rates by Stroke. This is indeed what shows a study presented at the annual congress of the French Neurovascular Society (SFNV), relayed this Thursday by the Medical Press Agency (APM).
Stroke deaths skyrocket in overseas regions
To conduct this research, Christine de Peretti from the Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) relied on data from Inserm’s Center for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death (CepiDC). She and her team of researchers compared the rate for each region to the average rate for the French population. As a result, they found that several regions had stroke death rates significantly higher than the national average. This is the case in particular for the four overseas regions, with higher rates of 83% in Guyana, 80.7% in Reunion, 66% in Guadeloupe and 39% in Martinique.
Concerning the metropolis, the mortality rate was 25.5% higher in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, compared to the national average. There was also an increase of almost 14% compared to the average in Brittany and Limousin and almost 10% in Haute-Normandie.
National stroke rate drops 25% in six years
Conversely, the death rate was lower than the average by nearly 20% in Ile-de-France and 11% in Rhône-Alpes. Another good news is that by comparing these data from 2008-10 with similar data from 2002-04, the researchers found a drop in stroke mortality in all regions of France. But compared to the average decrease, which was 25% for the whole country, this decrease was more marked in all the overseas departments and in Alsace, and conversely more limited in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Center and Limousin. And Christine de Peretti to specify that “these regional disparities observed from death certificates were quite similar to regional disparities in hospitalization for stroke”. However, the researcher did not comment on the reasons why certain regions are above or below the national average.
Young people more and more affected
Finally, in another study carried out at Dijon University Hospital, already relayed exclusively by why actor in October, scientists analyzed data from the Dijon register of Stroke over 25 years, from 1985 to 2011.
According to their data, Stroke occurring in people under 55 years old would be on the increase in France. In thirty years, stroke cases have increased by 4% each year for those subjects considered young for stroke. Thus, among the 4,506 Stroke 453, or around 10%, occurred in Dijon during the period studied, in patients under 55 years of age.
“These results were similar for both sexes,” says the team. And Yannick Béjot, main author of the study, to estimate that this increase in the risk ofStroke in young people would be linked to an increase in certain risk factors such as obesity and diabetes and especially smoking.
He also noted the possible role of cannabis use, “which we know is responsible for a large number of strokes in young people. », He confided recently to why actor. “Our results indicate that primary vascular prevention is necessary from an early age,” concludes the Burgundian researcher.
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