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Mexican Americans less likely to call for help after a stroke, study says
Mexican Americans are less likely than Caucasians to call for medical assistance after a stroke, but an alarmingly low proportion of both groups actually called for help and less than a third arrived at a hospital within three hours of the stroke, the so-called golden window of time in which clot-busting therapy is most effective, researchers reported Thursday. "Stroke is a bad disease, but it is the most treatable of the bad diseases," said Dr. Lewis B. Morgenstern of the University of Michigan, lead author of the study appearing in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Assn.
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Mexican Americans are less likely than Caucasians to call for medical assistance after a stroke, but an alarmingly low proportion of both groups actually called for help and less than a third arrived at a hospital within three hours of the stroke, the so-called golden window of time in which clot-busting therapy is most effective, researchers reported Thursday. "Stroke is a bad disease, but it is the most treatable of the bad diseases," said Dr. Lewis B. Morgenstern of the University of Michigan, lead author of the study appearing in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Assn.
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