U.S. strokes, stroke deaths decreased over past decades

The declines in strokes and improvements in survival were similar between blacks, whites, men and women, according to the researchers. “Stroke is still the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the U.S. but we’re doing better,” said Dr. Josef Coresh, the study’s senior author from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and about 130,000 die as a result. Coresh and his colleagues write in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, that some studies have reported a decline in stroke rates. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..