Stroke Statistics

• Recurrent stroke is frequent; about 25 percent of people who recover from their first stroke will have another stroke within 5 years.
• Strokes are the 3rd leading cause of death in most developed countries...The U.S.A. is included.
• About 4,400,000 stroke survivors are alive today
• About 600,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year. About 500,000 of these are first attacks and 100,000 are recurrent attacks.

May is stroke awareness month.

• Each year more than 750,000 Americans have a stroke.  Of those 750,000 persons, 150,000 people die.
• Each year stroke kills more than twice as many American women as breast cancer
• The estimated cost of strokes to the nation each year is 30 billion dollars.
• It is the leading cause of disability in the United States
• Stroke is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States
• In the United States, a person suffers a stroke about every 53 seconds, and every 3.3 minutes someone dies of a stroke
• About 5% of people over age 65 have had at least one stroke

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