'Stroke Belt' deaths tied to non-traditional risk factors
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 10:15
in Health & Medicine
Southerners die from stroke more than in any other U.S. region, but exactly why that happens is unknown. A new report by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Vermont underscores that geographic and racial differences are not the sole reasons behind the South's higher stroke death rate...
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