by Smitha Mundasad, Health reporter, BBC News, 12 May 2015
There has been a worrying rise in the number of working-age men and women having strokes, a charity has warned.
In England in 2014 there were 6,221 hospital admissions for men aged 40-54 - a rise of 1,961 on 14 years earlier, a Stroke Association study shows.
Experts said unhealthy lifestyles were partly to blame for the rise, though the growing population and changes to hospital practice also played a part.
Overall the rate of strokes is going down in the UK, however.
Researchers say based on their findings strokes should not be considered as a disease of the old.
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