Mid-life strokes

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Miranda Hitti's (2007) article on WebMD discusses recent research that suggests that women 45-54 are more than twice as likely to have a stroke as men of similar age. UCLA researcher Amytis Towfighi's results in Neurology's June 20th edition (Towfighi et al, 2007) assessed stroke risk in over 17,000 Americans, using data from the National Health

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[plumtreeblossom]

Strokes are something I'm terrified of. They run in my family, as do heart conditions and and a low waist to hip measurement difference.

I'm a sitting duck. :-(