Which women are most at risk of stroke?
Published Friday 9 February 2018
By Tim Newman
Fact checked by Jasmin Collier
A paper published this week outlines stroke risk factors that are specific to women. The authors hope that increasing awareness will help identify people who should be monitored more closely.
A new review examines stroke risk factors in women.
Strokes kill an estimated 140,000 people in the United States each year. That accounts for around 1 in 20 deaths.
Breaking that statistic down further, someone dies of stroke in the U.S. every 4 minutes.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320867.php
