'Stroke Belt' Deaths Tied To Non-traditional Risk Factors
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 00:35
in Health & Medicine
A new report underscores the notion that stroke risks go beyond geographic and racial differences. Researchers report that non-traditional risk factors must explain the South's higher stroke death rate. What those factors are need further study, but clearly diabetes and hypertension play an important role, the study authors said.