Recurrent Stroke and Racial Disparities: Black People Disproportionately Affected
Cumara B O'Carroll1, Oana Dumitrascu2
1From the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Phoenix, AZ. ocarroll.cumara@mayo.edu.
Neurology
|August 30, 2022
Abstract
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