Background and Purpose—Stroke recently declined from the third to the fourth leading
cause of death in the United States, its first rank transition among sources of American …

Background As the nation's oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to
reducing death and disability from cardiovascular diseases and stroke, the AHA has focused …

Importance Prior studies have shown decreases in stroke mortality over time, but data on
validated stroke incidence and long-term trends by race are limited. Objective To study …

Background Whether changes in stroke mortality are affected by age distribution and birth
cohorts, and if the decline in stroke mortality exhibits heterogeneity by stroke type, remains …

Each year, more than 2 million Americans have a heart attack or stroke, and more than
800,000 of them die; cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United …

Background The lifetime risk of stroke has been calculated in a limited number of selected
populations. We sought to estimate the lifetime risk of stroke at the regional, country, and …

Importance Heart disease (HD) and cancer are the 2 leading causes of death in the United
States. During the first decade of the 21st century, HD mortality declined at a much greater …

Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the United States. Stroke also results in
substantial health-care expenditures; the mean lifetime cost resulting from an ischemic …

China faces the greatest challenge from stroke in the world. The death rate for
cerebrovascular diseases in China was 149.49 per 100 000, accounting for 1.57 million …

Background and Purpose—Stroke mortality rates declined for much of the second half of the
20th century, but recent trends and their relation to other organ-and disease-specific causes …