According to the American Stroke Association, stroke kills more than 85,000 women each year and women experience about 55,000 more cases of stroke annually than men.
According to the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, stroke kills more than 85,000 women each year and women experience about 55,000 more cases of stroke annually than men. And while women are more likely to survive a stroke,
shows they often have poorer recoveries, meaning they suffer more disability and an impaired quality of life than men do after an attack.“Women have worse outcomes,” said Cheryl Bushnell, professor of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, adding that their prognosis often depends on their age — elderly women have more problems — along with how well they functioned before their stroke.
In addition, women are more likely than men to “develop post-stroke depression and cognitive impairment,” said Louise McCullough, the Roy M. & Phyllis Gough Huffington distinguished chair of neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. “There is a— if you suffer a stroke, you are many times more like to develop dementia. It’s important to know that one of the key reasons people end up in nursing homes is because of vascular disease and dementia.
Black women are particularly at risk when it comes to stroke. “There are definitely disparities by race,” says Kathryn Rexrode, chief of the division of women’s health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Some of this is because of hypertension, a stroke risk factor for everyone that is a, “but that doesn’t explain all of it.
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