A new analysis published in The Lancet finds a startling 25% increase in the number of stroke cases among people aged 20 to 64 years over the last 20 years. Findings come from the first comprehensive and comparable analysis of the regional and country-specific burden of stroke between 1990 and 2010. A second study published in The Lancet Global Health shows that in 2010, three-fifths (61.5%) of the disability and more than half (51.7%) of the lives lost to stroke were the result of haemorrhagic strokes despite being half as common as ischaemic strokes.