Fig. 1

Stroke impact on society. a Disability-adjusted life years for 15 neurological disorder categories worldwide. With increasing age, stroke contributes the most to life years lost by death or disability. Shown are estimates for male persons; the graphs for females show similar percentages. Modified from the Global Burden of Disease Study group (2019,  [20]). b Projection of the distribution of incident stroke events in the US for the years 2010 and 2050, separated by ethnicity and age. Especially the proportion of very old patients (> 85 years) is expected to strongly increase over the next three decades. From [35] (with permission)