Black young adults hospitalized for stroke at much higher rate than whites, Hispanics

Friday, March 13, 2009 - 12:28 in Health & Medicine

In Florida, black young adults are hospitalized for stroke at a rate three times higher than their white and Hispanic peers, a new study by University of South Florida researchers reports. The study was presented today at the American Heart Association's Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Annual Conference and appears in the online version of the international journal Neuroepidemiology.

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