Stroke teaches woman importance of listening to what your body is saying - LubbockOnline.com
May 11, 2011
Dina Fitz was a healthy, active 44-year-old. One moment changed all that. For the
past three years Fitz has lived with the effects left by the stroke, when the blood
supply was cut off from her brain.
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The American Heart Association predicts that in the next 40 years strokes are expected
to increase among Mexican-Americans by 350 percent.
“That is a very, very significant difference,” said Dr. Jongyeol Kim, Texas Tech Health
Sciences Center chief of Cerebrovascular Disease, Neurology and University
Medical Center Stroke Program medical director....
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