US stroke survival is improving, but race still plays role

There’s good news and bad for stroke survival in the United States: New research shows that Americans are now more likely to survive long-term, but that’s more true for whites than for Black Americans. At least for a sample of people living in the greater Cincinnati area, “we saw that there clearly has been an improvement in five-year mortality [death] after stroke, and it probably is at least partially driven by the stroke systems of care that have been set up here in Cincinnati,” said study co-author Dr. David Robinson. He’s an assistant professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine at Read More