ABSTRACT NUMBER: ESOC2026A1676 HEIGHTENED VULNERABILITY OF THE VERY-OLD TO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM DISRUPTIONS: TEMPORAL TRENDS IN STROKE CARE AND OUTCOMES
Jonguk Kim, Beom Joon Kim, Jihoon Kang, Jun Yup Kim, Do Yeon Kim, Nakhoon Kim, Moon-Ku Han, Byung-Chul Lee, Ji Sung Lee, Juneyoung Lee, Hee-Joon Bae · 2026
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Stroke care has improved for a decade, and an eleven-author team asked whether patients over eighty shared in the gains. In a conference abstract, they analyze 18,434 such patients from a Korean national registry spanning 2011 to 2022, tracking treatments and outcomes over time. Extra checks asked whether trends bent after 2020.
The share of very old patients rose from about 17 to 27 percent of admissions, strokes arrived milder, and preventive treatments such as blood thinners before stroke roughly tripled. Yet outcomes turned: one-year death rates fell from 27.5 percent in 2011 to 19.4 percent in 2019, then climbed back to 23.7 percent by 2022. Functional scores worsened too. Younger patients kept improving after 2019. The authors read the split as a sign that the very old are hit hardest when health systems are strained, as during the pandemic years.
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| CREATOR | Jonguk Kim, Beom Joon Kim, Jihoon Kang, Jun Yup Kim, Do Yeon Kim, Nakhoon Kim, Moon-Ku Han, Byung-Chul Lee, Ji Sung Lee, Juneyoung Lee, Hee-Joon Bae |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |