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CDC: Heavy stroke burden in South

Strokes are most common in Mississippi and other Southern states and least in Connecticut, according to a report providing the first U.S. state-by-state accounting of the third-leading cause of American deaths.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, issued Thursday, also showed that black people are nearly twice as likely as whites to suffer a stroke, and better-educated people are far less likely to have one.

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From the wiki:

"Risk factors for stroke include advanced age, hypertension (high blood pressure), previous stroke or TIA (transient ischaemic attack), diabetes mellitus, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, atrial fibrillation, migraine with aura, and thrombophilia. In clinical practice blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor of stroke, however many other risk factors, such as cigarette smoking cessation and treatment of atrial fibrillation with anticoagulant drugs, are important."

Black folks are in the highest risk groups for both hypertension and diabetes. And Southern cooking would coorelate with the high cholesterol.