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Patients admitted for ischemic stroke who live in the Stroke Belt are less likely to receive a neurologic evaluation during hospital stays.
Patients admitted for ischemic stroke who live in the Stroke Belt are less likely to receive a neurologic evaluation during hospital stays.
Study presented at ISC 2024 suggests Black women with hypertension before age 35 face a 3-fold increase in risk of stroke while hypertension before 45 linked to doubling in stroke risk.
Black women who develop high blood pressure before age 35 have a threefold increased risk of having a midlife stroke, new data suggested.
I shared these maps with cardiologist Donald Lloyd-Jones, a past president of the American Heart Association who chairs the preventive medicine department at…