Stroke Facts

• President Gerald Ford
• Tedy Bruschi
• Mary Kay Ash
• Sharon Stone
• Della Reese
• Kirk Douglas
• Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy
• Charles Schultz
• Harry Caray
• Charles Dickens
• Ed Koch
• Ted Williams

• Stroke is the third-leading cause of death in the United States behind cardiovascular disease and cancer, causing more than 163,000 deaths each year.
  
  
• Each year, approximately 750,000 people in the United States or one person every 45 seconds experience a new or recurrent stroke.
  
  
• Every 3 minutes, someone dies from stroke. Within one year of an initial stroke, 22 percent of men and 25 percent of women will die.
  
  
• Stroke is the primary cause of long-term adult disability in the United States. In 1999, more than 1.1 million American adults reported difficulty with functional limitations and activities of daily living resulting from stroke.
  
  
• 4,000,000 stroke survivors.
  
  
• Up to 80% or 600,000 strokes are preventable.
  
  
• Stroke kills more than twice as many American women every year as breast cancer.