AFRICAN -AMERICAN AND STROKES

Overall, African-American suffer more strokes than any group of people. There are statistic showing about twice the mortality of strokes than Caucasians .MD Ralph Sacco Neurolgist in Chief at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami , Fl.

for men between the age of 45and 54, the risk of ischemic stroke , the most prevalent type of stroke , which cause by a blood clot that block an artery is three time higher in African American than Caucasian..