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Yale Public Health School: Black Medicare Patients Have Higher Long-Term Stroke Death Rates
March 16, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 16 (TNSRes) -- Yale School of Public Health issued the following news:

A long-term study of Medicare patients finds that Black patients who have an ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain) die at a higher rate than white patients, even after accounting for preexisting health conditions, a preliminary study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds.

The findings are being presented at the American Stroke Association&# . . .

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