Learn to protect yourself and loved ones from strokes

Dr. Terry A. Rondberg

Special to the Village News

Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke. Forty more seconds, another stroke. More than 795,000 strokes each year. Of these, more than 140,000 people die, making strokes the third leading disease cause of death in the country.

According to the National Stroke Association, we could easily slash that number by at least 80 percent – right now.

Yet, the answer to prevention isn’t in drugs or surgery. Medicines have proved to be dismal failures in avoiding strokes, especially the popular use of statin therapy. Despite the fact that the dru...