What is the prevalence of stroke survivors in the US?
Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for the time period 2006 to 2010 showed that the age-adjusted self-reported prevalence of stroke survivors did not change significantly for women (2.5% 2.6%), whereas it did for men, with prevalence declining from 2.8% in 2006 to 2.5% in 2009 and then increasing to 2.7% in 2010. Additionally, it is estimated that just more than half (51.8%, 3.223 million) of the 6.226 million adults (3%) in the United States who have been told they had a stroke were female.