What are the risk factors associated with racial disparities in stroke mortality?
Risk factors associated with racial disparities in stroke mortality include pre-hypertension, living in an impoverished area, racial residential segregation, and foreign birth. Pre-hypertension was found to be associated with a higher prevalence of risk factors in the Reasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. Patients living in impoverished areas were found to have more severe ischemic strokes in the Kleindorfer study. Racial residential segregation and foreign birth were associated with higher stroke mortality in the Greer and Moon studies, respectively.