Strokes can strike kids

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Mon, 04/27/2009 - 21:33

Strokes are generally perceived to affect only adults, but they are not altogether rare in children - especially infants - occurring at approximately the same rate as childhood leukemia or brain tumors.

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