AHA 2020 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update:
- Someone in the US has a stroke every 40 seconds on average.
- In 2017, stroke accounted for about 1 of every 19 deaths in the US.
- On average in 2016, someone died of stroke every 3 minutes 35 seconds.
- When considered separately from other cardiovascular diseases, stroke ranks number 5 among all causes of death in the US, causing 146,383 deaths in 2017.
- In 2017, the age-adjusted stroke death rate was 37.6 per 100,000, a decrease of 13.6% from 2007, whereas the actual number of stroke deaths increased 7. 7% during the same time period.
- According to data from 2005, stroke was a leading cause of serious long-term disability in the US. Approximately 3% of males and 2% of females reported that they were disabled because of stroke.
- In 2017, there were 6.2 million deaths attributable to cerebrovascular disease worldwide (2. 7 million deaths from ischemic stroke, 3.0 million deaths from intracerebral hemorrhage, and 0.4 from subarachnoid hemorrhage).
- An estimated 7.2 million Americans aged 20 years or older have had a stroke, and approximately 800,000 people in the U.S. have a new or recurrent stroke each year. [68]
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