Stroke-associated deaths in Washington county, Maryland, with special reference to water hardness.
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Deaths associated with strokes from 1963 to 1975 among 36,860 adult residents of Washington County, Maryland, were studied in relation to the hardness of drinking water at home, assessed on the basis of 1,569 water samples taken during this period. There was no satisfactory evidence that water hardness was related to stroke mortality. Age was a strongly related factor. There was little or no association with sex, marital status, socio-economic status as reflected by education or housing, smoking history, or frequency of church attendance.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Stroke
دوره 10 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1979