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.
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.
Rosamond et al. (Thu,) studied this question.