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People of color, more than other groups, live in neighborhoods prone to excess heat and the illnesses that go with it

 E-Mail DALLAS, March 11, 2021 -- Discriminatory housing policies that restricted the sale or purchase of homes by race in certain neighborhoods across the U.S., called redlining, which were established nearly a century ago and outlawed by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, were associated with higher rates of stroke in the same neighborhoods in 2017, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Associations International Stroke Conference 2021. The virtual meeting is Ma...