KMBC: Stroke Rates Double Among Younger Adults Over the Past 20 Years

Strokes in younger adults under the age of 45 has more than doubled over the past 20 years. 

Cameron Harris, a 37-year-old mother of two, became one of the thousands of adults under the age of 45 to suffer a stroke last year.

KMBC talked to Cameron and Dr. Coleman Martin, a neuro interventionalist at Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, about how stroke can happen at any age.

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