Statistics

Statistics of Stroke

Consider the following statistics regarding strokes, published by the American Heart Association:

When ranked separately from other cardiovascular diseases, stroke is the third leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer.
Strokes kill more than 160,000 Americans each year.
On average, every 53 seconds, someone in the US experiences a stroke. Every 3.1 minutes someone dies of one.
About 33 percent of people who have had a stroke and survived will have another stroke within five years.
The risk of having a stroke increases with age. In fact, for people over age 55, the incidence of stroke more than doubles in each successive decade.
Seventy-two percent of all strokes occur in people over the age of 65.
Of all the stroke deaths that occur each year, women account for approximately 61.5 percent.
African-Americans are twice as likely to experience a stroke than Caucasian-Americans.