Strokes in Ukraine have grown younger by 10-15 years during the war, Health Minister Viktor Lyashko has stated.
“I can now go into the discussion and show the figures of the growth of strokes, to which leads exactly stressful situations in which we are. We can already today confirm the studies of the past years that the country where there is a war, strokes are getting 10-15 years younger,” he told the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2024) in Berlin on Tuesday.
Lyashko noted that “a completely different age group gets such diseases.”