Traditional cardiovascular risk factors and socioeconomic status explain a substantial proportion of geographic disparities in stroke incidence within urban areas.
May guide targeted prevention in high-burden urban areas; leaves open whether modifying these factors narrows geographic disparities.
Marked differences occurred in stroke incidence among residential areas within this urban population. High-rate areas were characterized by a higher prevalence of smoking, hypertension, diabetes, and being overweight and by inferior socioeconomic circumstances. These risk factors accounted for a substantial proportion of the geographic variance in incidence of stroke.
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