Stroke Mortality Rates Vary in Local Communities in a Metropolitan Area
Author(s) -
Bijou R. Hunt,
Deepa Deot,
Steven Whitman
Publication year - 2014
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/strokeaha.114.005431
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , demography , metropolitan area , stroke (engine) , psychological intervention , mortality rate , population , gerontology , race (biology) , environmental health , mechanical engineering , botany , pathology , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology , engineering , biology
For the past decade, stroke has held steady as one of the top 4 leading causes of death in the United States. Aggregated data provide information about how the country or individual states are faring with respect to stroke mortality, but disaggregation provides data that may facilitate targeted interventions and community engagement.
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