Middle-aged Mexican Americans have roughly double the risk of stroke that non-Hispanic whites do, data from a Texas county suggest.
Lewis B. Morgenstern of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his colleagues used interviews and medical records to track strokes in Nueces County, Texas. After comparing the number of strokes with local census figures, the researchers found that Mexican Americans between the ages of 45 and 59 had twice the incidence of stroke as did similar-age non-Hispanic whites.
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