Uptick in U.S. Stroke Deaths Sets Off Alarms: CDC

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Uptick in U.S. Stroke Deaths Sets Off Alarms: CDC
 
By Steven Reinberg
 

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 6, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Progress in preventing stroke deaths in the United States has stalled after 40 years of decline, and may even be reversing, government health officials say.

Stroke deaths increased significantly among Hispanics and in the South between 2013 and 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.

http://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170906/uptick-in-us-stroke-deaths-sets-off-alarms-cdc#1

[goatprairie]

Just had a sister-in-law die the other day.  She was a heavy smoker, and about seven or eight  years ago at the age of sixty contracted breast cancer and then had a series of strokes. 
Her last five or six years she was almost totally incapacitated and unable to leave her home. A  series of strokes in the last year finally killed her.
If you smoke, stop now.