May Is Stroke Awareness Month

There’s been a tremendous focus of women’s health on breast cancer but did you know that there are 3 times more female deaths per year from stroke than from breast cancer???

women-deaths-per-year stroke.org

Women are at a much higher risk from stroke and this includes hemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke from ruptured brain aneurysms.  Click on brain aneurysms and brain aneurysm rupture to read more.  Below is an infographic from @AHA/ASA about the higher risk of stroke that women face.  #BeInformed #StrokeAwareness #Women’sHealth

Stroke-Women-at-Risk-infographic


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