| Statistics of Stroke /
Brain Attack More about stroke/brain attack:
- Stroke is third largest cause of death, ranking behind diseases of the
heart and all forms of cancer.
- Strokes kill about 150,000 Americans each year and are the leading cause
of adult, serious, long-term disability in the United States.
- Approximately 4,400,000 stroke survivors are alive today.
- Based on the Framingham Heart Study, approximately 600,000 people suffer
a new or recurrent brain attack each year (about 500,000 are first attacks, 100,000 are
recurrent attacks).
- Estimates indicate that stroke accounts for more than half of all
patients hospitalized for acute neurological disease.
- Twenty-eight percent of annual brain attack victims are under age 65.
- From 1986 to 1996, the death rate from stroke declined 14.8 percent, but
the actual number of stroke deaths rose 6.9 percent.
- Strokes occur in men more than women, but women die more often as a
result of stroke.
- In 1996, females comprised 60.9 percent of stroke fatalities.
- Stroke is the second leading cause of death in American women ages 45-64,
killing more females than breast cancer.
- In 1950, the death rate within one year from brain attack was 88.8
percent; in 1996, 29 percent.
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