Impact of stroke on human survival from an ecological perspective
Keywords:
stroke; ecological; survival strategies; ictus; survivalAbstract
Introduction: Stroke is the most prevalent neurological condition in the world. Based on the results published on survival in ischemic stroke in Cuba, a different vision is offered with an ecological approach, of what this disease represents for the human species.
Objective: Analyze the impact that stroke has on the survival of man as a species.
Opinion: Stroke survival is influenced by the high initial mortality it causes, which increasingly occurs in earlier stages of adult life. From an ecological point of view, this represents an evolutionary mismatch of the life strategy of the human species, that is, a regression towards basal survival patterns, which is seen in the inversion of the convex Type I survival curve typical of humans, towards a concave Type III curve typical of fish and plants.
Conclusions: The impact of stroke on human survival is of such magnitude that it causes the life strategy developed over millions of years of evolution to become inefficient and costly from an ecological point of view.
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