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Stroke hospitalizations have gone up among young adults and children over the last 14 years, according to new research. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta look at data from hospitalization records in people ages 15 to 44 for ischemic stroke, which occurs when plaque blocks a blood vessel that supplies the brain. They found that hospitalizations for ischemic stroke increased 31 percent among those aged five to fourteen between 1995 and 2008, and it increased 30 percent among people aged 15-34. Additionally, almost one in three patients hospitalized for ischemic stroke between the ages of 15 to 34 and over half aged 35 to 44 years were also diagnosed with hypertension. Among patients aged 35 to 44 years, one in four also had diabetes. The researchers recommend that adolescents, their parents, and young adults can help avoid stroke by focusing on eating a healthy diet, getting physical activity regularly and not smoking. These things will decrease the likelihood of hypertension, tiffany outlet cholesterol and diabetes – all major factors contributing to risk of stroke. CBC quotes Dr. Mary George and her co-authors as concluding, "Urgent public health initiatives are needed to reverse the rising trends in modifiable risk factors and unhealthy behaviours associated with stroke in adolescents and young adults.” Tropical Depression Talas, downgraded earlier from Tropical Storm, pounded western Japan with heavy rain over the weekend, leaving 17 people dead and a few dozen missing, public broadcaster NHK said yesterday. Talas, which made landfall in Japan's western island of Shikoku on Saturday, and cut through the country's main island by yesterday morning, was off the nation's western coast yesterday afternoon. Television reports showed mudslides and flattened wooden houses by a swollen, dark brown river in western Japan's Nara prefecture. Reuters.Iranian police have started cracking down on water fights springing up across the country with the arrests of several young men and women who took part in the latest organised water pistol battles. A water fight in a Tehran park on Friday, thought to have been organised through social media websites, was broken up by police who arrested several of the revellers, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported yesterday. “Some of these dissidents who intended to play water fight were arrested by police on Friday,” Ahmadreza Radan, Tehran’s deputy police chief, told Mehr. Various websites have posted photographs of girls and boys in wet clothes throwing water balloons, firing water guns and splashing each other with water from bottles after the first water fights were reported in the capital a few weeks ago. The fights have since spread across the country despite warnings from authorities.