Hot and Cold: Stroke Mortality Varies Widely, Even in Neighboring Counties (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Hot and Cold: Stroke Mortality Varies Widely, Even in Neighboring Counties

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Penn Medicine researchers identified clusters of 'hot' spots -- counties where the mortality rate from stroke was as much as 40 percent higher than the national average and 1.5 times higher than mortality of patients in 'cool' spots -- in the southeastern United States which extended farther west and north than the traditionally defined "stroke belt." They also found isolated areas of low stroke mortality clustered within hot spots and isolated areas of high stroke mortality clustered within cool spots.

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