{"id":1231643,"date":"2023-06-01T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1231643"},"modified":"2023-06-02T22:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:21:48","slug":"disturbing-trend-involving-young-stroke-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1231643","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing trend involving young stroke victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1231645\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/CHRISTUSHEALTH1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; An official at an East Texas hospital says young people are becoming more prone to strokes. The stroke coordinator at\u00c2\u00a0 Christus Health, in Tyler, Jennifer Burwell says it&#8217;s not uncommon to see patients at 30, 20 and even 18 years old who have suffered strokes. She says it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re not as active as they should be. The CDC says 80% of strokes are preventable, but they are the third leading cause of death in Texas. Burwell says remember the acronym &#8220;BE FAST&#8221; to recognize the symptoms of stroke: balance, eyes, face, arm, speech, and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; An official at an East Texas hospital says young people are becoming more prone to strokes. The stroke coordinator at\u00c2\u00a0 Christus Health, in Tyler, Jennifer Burwell says it&#8217;s not uncommon to see patients at 30, 20 and even 18 years old who have suffered strokes. She says it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re not as active &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1231643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disturbing trend involving young stroke victims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1231653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/CHRISTUSHEALTH1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Disturbing trend involving","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 21:12:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/CHRISTUSHEALTH1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Disturbing trend involving","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231652,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231643\/revisions\/1231652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}