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Risk of Hospitalized Stroke in Men Enrolled in the Honolulu Heart Program and the Framingham Study
Author(s) -
Beatriz L. Rodríguez,
Ralph B. D’Agostino,
Robert D. Abbott,
Abraham Kagan,
Cecil M. Burchfiel,
Katsuhiko Yano,
G. Webster Ross,
Halit Silbershatz,
Millicent Higgins,
Jordan Popper,
Philip A. Wolf,
J. David Curb
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/hs0102.101081
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , framingham risk score , framingham heart study , incidence (geometry) , diabetes mellitus , risk factor , body mass index , population , cardiology , disease , endocrinology , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , environmental health , engineering
Risk of death due to stroke in Japan is more than double the risk in the United States. It remains unknown why some ethnic groups are more prone to stroke than others. Our purpose was to compare the 20-year incidence of hospitalized stroke between Japanese-American men in the Honolulu Heart Program and white men in the Framingham Study.

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