Abstract
Although cerebrovascular disease remains a major health problem in United States and elsewhere, the death rate from stroke declined by 46% from 1968 to 1981, an American Heart Association (AHA) official—Edward S. Cooper, MD—points out. Cooper, who is professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, is chair of AHA's Stroke Council. He noted during AHA's annual scientific sessions in Anaheim, Calif, that the rate of death from all diseases in United States dropped by only 13% while a larger decline in stroke-related deaths was being documented. And, says a researcher at Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, recent data suggest that this trend [the declining mortality rate associated with stroke] is continuing. Kenneth G. Manton, PhD, an associate research professor at center, has been working with National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), Bethesda, Md,
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