Bengaluru: The number of youngsters reporting at hospitals with symptoms and incidents of stroke has increased substantially over the last five years.

Stroke, which was once perceived to affect only elders, is now being widely observed among people in their thirties and forties.

DH spoke to around eight hospitals in the city where doctors observed (according to the data they recorded) that youngsters now account for close to 15% to 20% of all the stroke cases as against 10% five years ago.

Surprisingly, doctors who have been observing the rise in cases year-on-year have also seen that 1%-2% of stroke cases are among patients less than the age of 30.

“In recent years, we have witnessed a troubling shift: strokes are no longer confined to the elderly. In urban centres like Bengaluru, it

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