Guntur: Youngsters are getting vulnerable to brain stroke owing to fast changing lifestyles, including food habits. Medical experts are worried over a rise in the number of youths who are suffering brain stroke as it leaves the families of the victims in the lurch.Doctors say that brain stroke has become the second largest killer disease in the country and it has outnumbered the deaths of people suffering from other diseases. “Although, it is completely curable if the patient is brought to the hospital within 4 hours. But it is always disheartening to see young people in the hospital,” said Major General (rtd) Dr Kumara Velu, noted neurologist with Dr Ramesh Hospitals in the city.He added that the patients must be rushed to nearby brain stroke centres for their survival. People can avoid the risk of brain stroke by consuming good diet, going for physical exercise and stay away from smoking.“It is a myth that stroke only happens to elderly people. But we are finding that the number of youths with the disease on the rise,” said another neurologist Dr Sai Sandeep Budha.He added that they have recently treated a 22-year-old youth who suffered stroke, the second common cause of death across the state. Medical experts feel that strokes are completely preventable if one could properly manage the risk factors like high blood pressure, control blood sugar. Surprisingly, people still have wrong notions that strokes can’t be treated.

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