UAB study shows African-Americans have highest stroke rate, southerners more likely to die
Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 17:35
in Health & Medicine
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- African-Americans age 65 and younger are more than twice as likely to have a stroke compared with Caucasians in any region, and people who have a stroke are more likely to die in the South than elsewhere, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health.