People under 50 can have strokes, too
A report examining the prevalence of strokes among people under 50 years old includes research and commentary from Wayne State University neurologist Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi, who took a look at how often people under the age of 50 were misdiagnosed. \"In our initial study, we found that about one out of seven, 14-percent of the patients, were being misdiagnosed in the emergency room, and one out of seven is a pretty significant number,\" he said. In the U.S., there are about 800,000 strokes a year with 10 percent experienced by those younger than 50.