Overview

• At Neurovascon 2025, the Cerebrovascular Society of India said Mumbai is seeing roughly 50–60 new stroke patients each day, yet only about 10% reach hospital within the critical early-treatment window.
• Clinicians reported a growing share of cases in people in their 40s and 50s, with nearly 20–30% of strokes occurring in those under 50 and men affected more often than women.
• Data presented at the conference put India’s annual stroke incidence at 119–145 per 100,000, ranking it the country’s fourth leading cause of death and fifth leading cause of disability.
• The World Health Organization estimates stroke accounts for about 11% of global deaths, underscoring the disease’s heavy toll alongside India’s urban concentration of cases.
• Doctors stressed prevention—controlling blood pressure, cutting salt and processed foods, exercising, quitting tobacco, managing stress, and ensuring adequate sleep—and emphasized that early treatment can avert long-term disability.