One in three adults will get shingles. Anyone who’s had chickenpox is at risk because shingles is caused by the virus (varicella zoster) that lies dormant in the body after causing chickenpox until it awakens to cause the often-painful rash.
In a new study, Swedish researchers compared risk factors in 271,000 people with diabetes and 1,356,000 without the disease. The researchers looked at five risk factors for heart attack and 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.
