So this article basically tells the dangers that mexican-americans deal with as a risk for stroke. However, the article describes other risk factors for stroke; poor diet, physical inactivity, smoking, not going to the doctor proceeding a stroke, high blood pressure and cholesterol, diabetes, etc. Why do you think this would target mexican-americans over any other race. Americans pretty much have the same diet, physical inactivity and so forth. Maybe people don't go to the doctor after a stroke because they don't have health insurance?? Just an idea.
If these other risk factors are such a big deal, I'd be interested to know where the Pima Indians stand as a risk factor. If anyone comes across someting will you let me know. If I find something, I'll post it as well. Thanks everyone. Have a great week
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I found your comment interesting, particularly the comment made on not having insurance. Well, although the article that I found does not specifically relate to the mexican-american or native american population, it does mention that strokes are more prevalent in the U.S. than in Europe.
US men were 61% more likely to have strokes that european and US wemen had twice the change of having a stroke then european women.
According to the article, "researchers studied data on 13,667 people in the United States and 30,120 individuals in 11 European countries. The analysis included stroke occurrence, socioeconomic status, and major risk factors for stroke."
To make it this short, they found that "poor Americans were much more likely to have a stroke than poor Europeans whereas the stroke prevalence was a less marked between rich Americans and rich Europeans,"
They found that lower socioeconomic status (wealth, education, income) were more likely to have a stroke.
So in retrospect, you could be right. I'll try to find out a little more on this.
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/stroke-more-prevalent-in-us-than-in-europe.html
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