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Nation’s largest racial disparities stroke study at UAB awarded $28M renewal grant

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $28 million grant renewal for the nation’s largest study aimed at exploring racial and geographic differences in stroke illness and stroke death from The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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school of public health
department of biostatistics
department of epidemiology
division of gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative care
center for aging
center for the study of community health
department of medicine

Risk of fatal heart disease higher among black men, women

Most of this disparity may be due to greater risk factor burden among blacks, including smoking, diabetes and hypertension.

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hypertension
department of medicine
cardiovascular diseases
diabetes, obesity and metabolism