Huge study of 10,000 stroke patients reveals scary statistics
WASHINGTON - One in four people who have a stroke will likely die within one year from any cause and 8 percent who have a stroke will have another one soon, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The risks were higher for African-Americans compared to whites and increased with age and the number of other ailments stroke patients had, the researchers wrote in the journal Neurology.
Dr Wuwei Feng of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and colleagues studied records of 10,399 hospital patients in the state who had a stroke in 2002.
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2 comments:
all this stinking snow will give anybody a stroke.
Are all the schools back on for tommorow,(Delmar High?).
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