Stroke deaths in the U.S. may be on the upswing again after a decline in recent decades, according to a CDC Vital Signs report.
Stroke mortality fell each year from 2000 to 2013, from just under 120 to 70 per 100,000. But after that, stroke deaths climbed back up by 4% every year, reaching 75 per 100,000 in 2015, according to Robert Merritt, MA, a health scientist at the CDC.