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STROKES AND AFRICAN AMERICANS
African American males between 35 and 54 have the highest stroke risk, four times greater than white males in that age group.
African American women are nearly twice as likely to suffer a stroke than other racial or ethnic groups.
African Americans face a higher death rate from stroke; on average, the death rate is 80 percent, compared with 52 percent of all stroke sufferers.
Latinos have strokes at younger ages than other ethnic groups; hemorrhagic strokes are more common among Latinos than any other racial or ethnic group.
Some factors that increase the risk of stroke among blacks and Latinos are higher incidences of high blood pressure, diabetes and, in blacks, sickle cell anemia
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