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Home > Cost of Chronic Disease > Cardiovascular Disease: Heart Disease & Stroke > The Human Burden of Cardiovascular Disease
Hypertension doubles a person's risk of stroke.
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Seshadri, Sudha, Alexa Beiser, Margaret Kelly-Hayes, Carlos Kase, Rhoda Au, William Kannel, and Philip Wolf. "The Lifetime Risk of Stroke: Estimates from the Framingham Study". Stroke. Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 345-50. [ Permalink ]