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Sex, ethnicity, and stroke.
T he social and economic costs of stroke in minority populations are projected to have an enormous increase over the next decades.1 In this issue of the American Journal of Hypertension, Lisabeth et al. evaluated the burden of stroke in Mexican-American (MA) and nonHispanic white (NHW) women in the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi Project.2 Although an excess of stroke risk in MAs ha...
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To the Editor: I read with interest the editorial of Drs Fustinoni and Biller on ethnicity and stroke.1 The authors give several examples to demonstrate the dark side of “ethnicity” as an epidemiological variable. I agree that ethnicity is a complex, inherently heterogeneous concept influenced by different cultural and socioeconomic factors.2 The authors make the point that ethnicity is neither...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.31.5.1013