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Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, after coronary heart disease and cancer. There are approximately 500,000 cases of stroke each year; of these, 150,000 are fatal.¹ Many survivors are left with mental and physical impairment and require assistance with activities of daily living. Twenty-eight percent of patients with stroke are under 65 years of age, and women account for 40 percent of the new cases.² Blacks in the United States have a rate of mortality due to stroke roughly twice that of whites.³ There are over 3 million patients with stroke alive in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Hypertension

Smoking

Glucose Tolerance

Obesity

Physically Active Lifestyle

Serum Cholesterol

Diet

Alcohol

Fat and Fatty Acids

Antioxidants

Low-Dose Aspirin

Women and Hormone Treatment

Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives

Postmenopausal Estrogen-Replacement Therapy

Healthy People 2000

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From the Division of Preventive Medicine and the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (L.L.B., J.E.M.); the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health (L.L.B.); and the Neurology–Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit and the Division of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (D.S.K.) — all in Boston; and Harvard Community Health Plan in Peabody, Mass. (J.E.M.).

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