A strike against stroke

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. That adds up to 795,000 strokes a year. And the number doesn’t count invisible “silent” strokes. Every four minutes, someone dies of a stroke. Though death rates have dropped, strokes still kill more than 137,000 Americans a year. That makes stroke the fourth-leading cause of death.
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