That study began 60 years ago in Framingham, Massachusetts, to learn more about the risks of heart attack and stroke.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

Chronic diseases have a major role in the healthcare costs, so if you look at these chronic diseases, heart disease, stroke, cancer and Diabetes we find that seven out of ten of all deaths are now due to chronic diseases, whereas, it was a very small fraction in 1900.

慢性疾病是医保费用中的一个大头,你看看这些慢性疾病,心脏病,中风,癌症和糖尿病,就会发现如今十分之七的死亡,都是源于慢性疾病,然而,这在1900年仅占很小一部分

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There are two kinds of strokes. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In nineteen fifty-nine, Hurston suffered a stroke and entered a nursing home in Fort Pierce,Florida.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

In eighteen seventy-three, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

The new findings appeared in the journal Stroke.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

In Witchita,Kansas,he had a small stroke.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

Now,Canadian researchers are exploring the possibility of using that same technology to provide rehabilitation services to stroke patients in remote areas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The pontiff wiped sweat from his brow with a handkerchief on a day when health workers treated several hundred of those in attendance for heat stroke.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

In 2007,he suffered symptoms associated with a minor stroke.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Those comments echo earlier assessments by analysts here in Seoul, who say Kim Jong Il's apparent stroke about a year ago challenged perceptions of his complete command of the North's government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22