Statewide Iowa — May is Stroke Awareness Month in Iowa, as people are urged to learn about the dangers of what’s now the state’s seventh-leading cause of death.
Mark Mintun, a physician’s assistant at Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City, says a stroke is essentially a brain attack.
Mintun says there are basically two types of stroke.
There are a few key symptoms or warning signs that a person may have suffered a stroke, and one way to remember them all is with the word FAST.
The Iowa Department of Public Health reports 1,390 Iowans died of stroke in 2020.
