Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports About Stroke

MMWR is a weekly scientific publication from CDC that reports public health information and recommendations for the United States.

The following issues of MMWR are relevant to stroke. To locate additional articles, you can also use CDC’s advanced search feature.

2021

• Predicted Heart Age Among Cancer Survivors — United States, 2013–2017
• Comorbidities Among Young Adults with Congenital Heart Defects: Results from the Congenital Heart Survey To Recognize Outcomes, Needs, and well-beinG — Arizona, Arkansas, and Metropolitan Atlanta, 2016–2019

2020

• Cancer and Heart Disease Death Rates Among Men and Women Aged 45–64 Years — United States, 1999–2018
• QuickStats: Death Rates from Stroke Among Persons Aged ≥65 Years, by Sex and Age Group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018
• Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation in Awareness of Stroke Signs and Symptoms Among Adults — United States, 2017
• Hospitalizations were 6 times higher and deaths 12 times higher for COVID-19 patients with reported underlying conditions
• Notes from the Field: Characteristics of Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champions, 2012–2019
• Prevalence of Self-Reported Hypertension and Antihypertensive Medication Use Among Adults — United States, 2017

2019

• Actions in Support of Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease — United States, 2011–2018
• Awareness of Heart Attack Symptoms and Response Among Adults — United States, 2008, 2014, and 2017
• American Heart Month — February 2019
• Workplace Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure Among U.S. Nonsmoking Workers, 2015
• State-Specific Prevalence of Obesity Among Children Aged 2–4 Years Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — United States, 2010–2016

2018

• Heart disease death rates among blacks and whites aged 35-64 Years — United States, 1968-2015: supplementary figures for: Heart Disease Death Rates Among Blacks and Whites Aged ≥35 Years — United States, 1968–2015
• Trends in heart disease death rates and black-white mortality ratios, 1968-2015: supplementary figures for: Heart Disease Death Rates Among Blacks and Whites Aged ≥35 Years — United States, 1968–2015
• Heart disease death rates among blacks and whites aged ≥35 years — United States, 1968–2015
• Vital Signs: Prevalence of Key Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors for Million Hearts 2022 — United States, 2011–2016
• SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors for the Million Hearts 2022 priority population of adults aged 35-64 years — United States
• Table 2. Prevalence of Million Hearts 2022 community risk factors for cardiovascular disease among adults — United States, 2016–2016
• TABLE 1. Current prevalence of implementation of Million Hearts 2022 clinical strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease among adults — United States, 2013–2014 and 2015–2016
• FIGURE 1. Prevalence of Million Hearts 2022 clinical strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease among adults – United States, 2011–2012, 2013–2014, and 2015–2016
• SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE. Overall current tobacco smoking; current tobacco smoker who made a quit attempt in the past 12 months; and knowledge/belief that tobacco smoking causes stroke, heart attack, and lung cancer, overall and by tobacco smoking status — Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2008–2016
• Prevalence of Self-Reported Hypertension and Antihypertensive Medication Use Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years — United States, 2011–2015
• Self-Reported Receipt of Advice and Action Taken To Reduce Dietary Sodium Among Adults With and Without Hypertension — Nine States and Puerto Rico, 2015
• Surveillance for certain health behaviors and conditions among states and selected local areas — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2015
• Hypertension Among Youths — United States, 2001–2016
• Vital Signs: State-Level Variation in Nonfatal and Fatal Cardiovascular Events Targeted for Prevention by Million Hearts 2022
• Tobacco Product Use Among Adults — United States, 2017

2017

• Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation in Awareness of Stroke Signs and Symptoms Among Adults — United States, 2017
• Announcement: National Stroke Awareness Month — May 2017
• CDC Grand Rounds: Newborn Screening for Hearing Loss and Critical Congenital Heart Disease
• SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 3. Age-standardized stroke death rates and annual percentage change by state — United States, 2000–2015
• Vital Signs: Recent Trends in Stroke Death Rates — United States, 2000–2015
• SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 1. Age-standardized stroke death rates and annual percentage change by selected characteristics, adults aged ≥35 years — United States, 2000–2015
• SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE. Changes in stroke death rate trends among adults aged ≥35 years — United States, 2000–2015
• SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE 2. Observed, expected, and estimated number of excess stroke deaths by age, sex, and race/ethnicity — United States, 2013–2015
• Announcement: American Heart Month — February 2017
• Sodium Intake Among Persons Aged ≥2 Years — United States, 2013–2014
• Surveillance for certain health behaviors and conditions among states and selected local areas — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2013 and 2014
• QuickStats: Number of Deaths from 10 Leading Causes, by Sex — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015
• CDC Grand Rounds: Public Health Strategies to Prevent and Treat Strokes
• Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years — Los Angeles County, 1999–2006 and 2007–2014
• Use of Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Heart Attack Survivors — 20 States and the District of Columbia, 2013 and Four States, 2015
• Smoke-Free Policies in the World’s 50 Busiest Airports — August 2017