Disparities in stroke incidence and risk factors among elderly people in the US
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Although low socioeconomic status has been linked with an elevated risk of stroke in European countries, it is unclear how biomedical, psychosocial and physical functioning risk factors influence this association among elderly people in the US. Avendano et al. have used 12-year follow-up data from 2,812 men and women aged 65 years or older in the New Haven cohort of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) study, to investigate the effect of socioeconomic status on the incidence of first nonfatal or fatal stroke in an aging US population.
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