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Lewis B. Morgenstern of the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as and his colleagues used interviews and medical records to track strokes in Nueces County, Texas Nueces County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population was 313,645. The county seat is Corpus Christi6 and it is part of the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Statistical Area. . After comparing the number of strokes with local census figures, the researchers found that Mexican Americans between the ages of 45 and 59 had twice the incidence of stroke as did similar-age non-Hispanic whites. Mexican Americans between 60 and 74 had roughly 60 percent more strokes than did no n-Hispanic whites. Risk was equal among people over age 75. The rate of diabetes among this Mexican-American population is 6 percent higher than that among non-Hispanic whites of the same age, but Morgenstern says that this difference probably explains only a small part of the increased stroke risk. His group reports its findings in the Aug. 15 American Journal of Epidemiology. Indeed, the reason for the disparity isn't clear, he says. In Nueces County, incidences of high blood pressure and high cholesterol Cholesterol, High Definition Cholesterol is a fatty substance found in animal tissue and is an important component to the human body. It is manufactured in the liver and carried throughout the body in the bloodstream. among Mexican Americans are similar to those of non-Hispanic whites of similar age. Also, most of the Mexican Americans in the county, which is not near the Mexican border, are second- and third-generation U.S. residents, not illegal aliens who might be disinclined dis·in·clined adj. Unwilling or reluctant: They were usually disinclined to socialize. disinclined Adjective unwilling or reluctant to seek medical care, Morgenstern says. However, interviews showed that Mexican Americans were less likely to call 911 in an emergency than were non-Hispanic whites. "We'll continue to look at both social and biological factors" that might explain the difference in stroke incidence, Morgenstern says.--N.S. |
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