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Racial differences in recurrent ischemic stroke risk and recurrent stroke case fatality.

Karen C Albright1, Lei Huang2, Justin Blackburn2

  • 1From the Departments of Epidemiology (K.C.A., L.H., P.M., V.H.), Health Care Organization and Policy (J.B.), Biostatistics (G.H.), and Medicine (V.B.), University of Alabama at Birmingham; Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (K.C.A.), Birmingham VA Medical Center, AL; and Department of Neurology (M.M.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. albrighk@upstate.edu.

Neurology
|October 5, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Black adults have a higher risk of recurrent stroke compared to white adults. However, 30-day case fatality after a recurrent stroke is lower for Black individuals.

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