Stroke prevention: is surgery more effective than therapy?
Experts say the emphasis on research has produced a major success story during the past dozen years. For example, more than 194,000 fatal strokes were reported in this country in 1975, a rate of 91.1 per 100,000. By 1981, that figure had declined to 163,504 with a corresponding drop in the rate per 100,000 in the general population. In 1985, the last year for which numbers are available, the provisional count was 151,810 cases of fatal stroke and a rate of 64 per 100,000. Thus, since 1975, the nation has seen a 30 percent decline in fatal strokes, attributed at least in part to vigorous research.
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