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Introduction

Inadequate health literacy is a pervasive problem with major implications for reduced health status and health disparities. Despite the role of focused education in both primary and secondary prevention of stroke, the effect of health literacy on stroke education retention has not been reported. We examined the relationship of health literacy to the retention of knowledge after recommended stroke education.

Methods

This prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at an urban safety-net hospital. Study subjects were patients older than 18 admitted to the hospital stroke unit with a diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke who were able to provide informed consent …

Diabetes  rates  continue  to  grow  in  the  United  States. Effectively addressing the epidemic requires better under-standing of the distribution of disease and the geographic clustering  of  factors  that  influence  it.  Variations  in  the prevalence  of  diabetes  at  the  local  level  are  largely  unre-ported,  making  understanding  the  disparities  associated with the disease more difficult. Diabetes death rates during the past 15 years in Duval County, Florida, have been dis-proportionately high compared with the rest of the state.

We analyzed multiple sources of secondary data related to  diabetes  illness  and  death  in  Duval  County,  includ-ing  data  on  hospital  discharge,  emergency  …