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Excess Stroke In Mexican Americans Compared With Non-Hispanic Whites: The Brain Attack Surveillance In Corpus Christi Project, Lewis B Morgenstern, Melinda A Smith, Lynda D Lisabeth, Jan M H Risser, Ken Uchino, Nelda Garcia, Paxton J Longwell, David A Mcfarling, Olubumi Akuwumi, Areej Al-Wabil, Fahmi Al-Senani, Devin L Brown, Lemuel A Moyé
Excess Stroke In Mexican Americans Compared With Non-Hispanic Whites: The Brain Attack Surveillance In Corpus Christi Project, Lewis B Morgenstern, Melinda A Smith, Lynda D Lisabeth, Jan M H Risser, Ken Uchino, Nelda Garcia, Paxton J Longwell, David A Mcfarling, Olubumi Akuwumi, Areej Al-Wabil, Fahmi Al-Senani, Devin L Brown, Lemuel A Moyé
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Mexican Americans are the largest subgroup of Hispanics, the largest minority population in the United States. Stroke is the leading cause of disability and third leading cause of death. The authors compared stroke incidence among Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic Whites in a population-based study. Stroke cases were ascertained in Nueces County, Texas, utilizing concomitant active and passive surveillance. Cases were validated on the basis of source documentation by board-certified neurologists masked to subjects' ethnicity. From January 2000 to December 2002, 2,350 cerebrovascular events occurred. Of the completed strokes, 53% were in Mexican Americans. The crude cumulative incidence was 168/10,000 in …