Chances are you have special women in your life. Understanding strokes and how they affect women is vital to the health and well-being of all the women in your life.
Few people realize that, every year, stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer.
Stroke is the third leading cause of the death in this country and a leading cause of adult disability. It kills 160,000 people every year and leaves another 590,000 stroke survivors in its wake. There are over four million stroke survivors living today and two-thirds of them have moderate to severe disabilities. African American women have the highest stroke risk of any ethnic population. Women account for about 43 percent of the strokes that occur each year.