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Data from a regional stroke registry suggest that stroke may be shifting from a disease of the elderly to a midlife health concern.

The rate of first stroke among patients age 20 to 54 jumped 12.9 percent in 1993-1994 to 18.6 percent in 2005, according to Brett Kissela, MD, of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, and colleagues.

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