What follows, in turn, is a look at the principal owners of BB&T's (NYSE:BBT) outstanding common stock. A broad overview. As you can see in the following chart, the majority of BB&T's 700 million shares are held by institutional investors.
Approximately 25,000 Americans die each year from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. More than 300,000 people are hospitalized each year due to cirrhosis. Approximately 5,000 liver transplants were performed in 2000. Because of the shortage of organs, it is estimated that nearly 1,700 prospective recipients died in 2001 while waiting for a liver for transplantation.
Stroke. 1  Stroke is the No. 4 cause of death in the United States, killing more than 129,000 people a year. 2  Stroke kills someone in the U.S. about once every four minutes. 3  Over the past 10 years, the death rate from stroke has fallen about 36 percent and the number of stroke deaths has dropped about 23 percent. More than 787,000 people in the U.S. died from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases in 2010. 2  Thatâs about one of every three deaths in America. 3  About 2,150 Americans die each day from these diseases, one every 40 seconds. 4  Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives than all forms of cancer combined.