Addressing racial and ethnic disparities in stroke: The time is now

摘要: Stroke is pricey.1 In addition to its devastating medical and social consequences it has enormous financial costs, which unfavorably impact the individual stroke survivor, their family, society. According American Heart Association, estimated direct indirect costs for in 2006 will reach $58 billion.2 While knowledge of huge increasing economic burden not new, further delineation sociodemographic implications problem could help health policy decision-makers prioritize resources implement comprehensive steps action mitigate rising tide due stroke. The article by Brown et al. this issue Neurology explores racial ethnic disparities on future attributable stroke.3 Utilizing United States census estimates race-ethnic populations, extracting epidemiology data from representative multiethnic surveillance cohort studies, they developed a conservative model projected …