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Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, but remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Racial and ethnic differences in stroke incidence and subtype may relate to cultural, environmental or genetic variation. Multiple large databases have identified differences in stroke incidence, age of occurrence and outcomes after stroke by race. Here we review the major epidemiologic differences in stroke by race including incidence, presentation age, mortality and differences by subtype are reviewed as a foundation for the subsequent sections.

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Demel, S.L., Woo, D. (2017). Non-Caucasian Stroke Genetics. In: Sharma, P., Meschia, J. (eds) Stroke Genetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56210-0_15

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