CDC, Global Experts Develop Prevention Framework To Stop Rising Number Of Strokes Worldwide

CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: CDC Spotlights Stroke Prevention for World Stroke Day
Mary G. George, deputy associate director for science and senior medical officer in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, and Jennifer L. Foltz, director of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program and senior medical officer in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, discuss the increasing number of strokes worldwide and highlight a global prevention framework defined in the report “Prevention of Stroke: A Strategic Global Imperative” (10/28).

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