The next year and a half Jared’s family would travel five states and seek out top specialists at leading hospitals as he battled to recover. Today, Jared is still recovering but his condition has improved and his doctors say the chance of reoccurrence is very low.
The hard truth though, is strokes are among the top 10 killers of children. According to the American Heart Association, the risk of stroke in children 18 and younger is 11 per 100,000, or about 9,000 incidents a year. Strokes also occur in about 1 out of every 4,000 births.
For more information on strokes and how they affect children, please visit know-stroke.org.
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