Why the study?
Does black race increase the risk of incident ischemic stroke in middle-aged adults compared to white race?
Does black race increase the risk of incident ischemic stroke in middle-aged adults compared to white race?
Black middle-aged adults have a significantly higher risk of incident ischemic stroke compared to white adults, even after adjusting for established risk factors.
May inform equitable prevention strategies in middle-aged adults; leaves open unmeasured social or biologic contributors to racial disparity.
After accounting for established baseline risk factors, blacks still had a 38% greater risk of incident ischemic stroke compared with whites. Identification of new individual and community-level risk factors accounting for the elevated incidence of stroke requires further investigation and incorporation into intervention planning.
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Rosamond et al. (1999) studied this question.
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