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Growing Gender Gap In Stroke Prevalence
The findings will be presented at 5:40 p.m. CT, Feb. 25, 2010 at the American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference in San Antonio, Texas. (Abstract #P435)
"Although midlife women''s blood pressure and lipid profiles are better than men''s, they have significantly higher rates of abdominal obesity, which may be driving this trend," said Amytis Towfighi, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine, and the principal investigator of the study.
The investigators first reported on the evolving gender difference in rates of midlife stroke three years ago. An analysis of stroke prevalence in the United States from 1999 to 2004 found that women ages 45-54 were twice as likely as men to report having had a stroke.
In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2005-2006 (NHANES), a cross-sectional sample of 10,348 adults in the U.S. The data included 2,198 men and women aged 35-64.
The investigators found that women in the age group were almost three times more likely than men of the same age to report having had a stroke (2.9 percent vs. 1.07 percent).
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