Is the stroke belt disappearing? An analysis of racial, temporal, and age effects.

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Published in Stroke on July 01, 1995

Authors

G Howard1, G W Evans, K Pearce, V J Howard, R A Bell, E J Mayer, G L Burke

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063, USA.

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