Stroke: The Relationship between Walking Speed and Stroke Incidence

The incidence of stroke among young and middle-aged people is on the riseNevertheless, its association with stroke populations is not clear, and prevention strategies do not meet their needsA study published recently in the journal Stroke, an authoritative journal on cardiovascular disease, was conducted to assess the relationship between self-reported walking speed and sudden strokethe population-based prospective study, from the British Biobank, recruited 363,137 participants (52 per cent of whom were women) between the ages of 37 and 73The researchers used the Cox scale risk model to investigate the relationship between self-reported walking speed and stroke incidence during follow-upof the 363,137 participants, 2,705 (0.7%) had fatal or non-fatal strokes during the average follow-up period of 6.1 years (5.4-6.7)The risk factor of the incidence of slow walking and stroke is higher (the risk ratio is 1.45 (95% CI is 1.26-1.66); P 0.0001)The incidence of stroke in people under 65 years of age was not related to walking speedHowever, slow walking was associated with a higher risk of stroke among participants aged 65 (HR 1.42 (95% CI 1.17-1.72); P 0.0001)Medium (HR is 1.28 (95% CI is 1.01-1.63); P-0.039) and above (HR is 1.29 .95% CI is 1.05-1.69); The risk of stroke is higher for individuals who are deprived of the degree, compared to the individuals with the least degree of deprivationSimilarly, overweight (HR is 1.30 (95% CI is 1.04-1.63); P-0.019) and obesity (HR is 1.33 .33 .95% CI is 1.09-1.63); Individuals with a higher risk of stroke than normal weightparticipants over the age of 64 who walked slowly was associated with a higher risk of stroke in the crowd-based cohort studyIncreasing self-reporting walking speed in primary health care or public health clinical consultations may be a useful stroke risk screening tool