Stroke / Carotid Artery Disease | How We Screen for Stroke | Warning Signs & Symptoms Prevention & Risk Factors | "How Stroke nearly took my life"

The Facts about Stroke:

• Approximately 50 percent of all stroke victims had no symptoms to indicate they were at risk.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• On average, every 45 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, the second leading cause of death among women, and the number one reason why people move into nursing homes.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• Each year about 700,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke, (500,000 are new attacks). Of those 158,000 die and others are often left with a variety of disabilities.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• On average, every three minutes someone dies of a stroke.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• Stroke is a leading cause of serious, long term disability in the United States.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• 14 percent of persons who survive a first stroke will have another one within one year.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• 51 percent of men and 53 percent of women under age 65 who have a stroke die within eight years.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)
• The New England Journal of Medicine concluded that ultrasound scanning of the carotid arteries is the single best predictor of stroke and heart disease.
  (Source: O’Leary, D.H., MD, Polak, J.F., MD, Kronmal, R.A., Ph.D., Manolio, T.A., MD, Burke, G.L., MD., MS, Wolfson Jr., S.K., MD, Carotid-Artery Intima and Media Thickness as a Risk Factor For Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in Older Adults. The New England Journal of Medicine, 1999; 340:14-22.)
• Up to 43 percent of the Medicare budget is expended annually for the medical care of stroke patients.
  (Source: Lavenson, George S. Jr., MD, RVT, FACS. Carotid Screening Preparing for the Future. Vascular Ultrasound Today 1997, 2 (5), pg. 64.)
• Americans paid about $62.7 billion in 2007 for stroke-related medical costs and disabilities.
  (Source: American Heart and Stroke Associations)

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