{"id":3007642,"date":"2023-12-14T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=3007642"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:36:38","slug":"strokes-racial-disparities-death-3007642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/strokes-racial-disparities-death-3007642\/","title":{"rendered":"Black patients are less likely to get go-to stroke treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Black patients are significantly less likely than white patients to receive the gold standard of stroke care, according to new research.<\/p>\n
Almost 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n
African Americans and other people of color have a substantially higher risk of experiencing a stroke than their white counterparts. And they’re also significantly more likely to die from those strokes.<\/p>\n
“Racial disparities exist in all levels of stroke care,” says Delaney Metcalf, a third-year medical student in the Augusta University\/University of Georgia Medical Partnership and lead author of the study in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n