(NewsNation) — A leading cause of death for Americans, strokes impact more than 795,000 people in the United States annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maintaining ...

Erin Adelekun was 38 when she had a stroke, just nine days after giving birth to her daughter in 2020. It all started with a headache, which had been about a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 when she was ...

Famed scientist Hans Selye once said, "It's not stress that kills us, it's our reaction to it." Well, modern-day scientists have seemingly proven him wrong. The research team tracked the health of 426 ...

The statistics can be sobering to read: Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke—and someone dies from the condition about every three minutes. According to the Centers for Disease ...

A recent study published in the journal Stroke by the American Stroke Association has raised alarms about the connection between adolescent obesity and early-onset stroke. The research, conducted in ...

Rates of young people suffering from strokes have been on the rise, with a CDC report last year finding a 14.6% increase in people aged 18-44 and a 15.7% increase from ages 45-64. Even more troubling ...

Women taking propranolol for migraine prevention may reap reduced risk of ischemic stroke as an added benefit, according to data presented as an abstract this week at the International Stroke ...

DALLAS, Dec. 4, 2024 — Women who have had a stroke may be less likely than men to take medications to prevent a second stroke, with Mexican American women reporting the highest rates of nonadherence, ...

Whether you're sweating out a killer heat wave or trying to go for a run in sweltering temperatures, heat stroke can sneak up on you. This condition, in which heat overwhelms your body's ability to ...