stroke beltの例文

• East Texas also is characterized as a stroke belt.
• The term " stroke belt " is modeled after belt as an article of clothing.
• He is director of the Stroke Belt Consortium, which educates patients and doctors about stroke.
• New research shows that the Stroke Belt has disintegrated as stroke mortality rates have declined nationwide.
• The stroke belt consists of 11 states that rank the highest in age-adjusted rates for stroke deaths.
• Caplan speculated that better education, health care and economic development contributed to the death of the Stroke Belt.
• Stroke deaths within the stroke belt also have declined, but not to the same degree as the rest of the country.
• One of my contributions there, Stroke Belt, garnered 14, 900 hits during its short time on the main page.
• The U . S . federal government has conducted public health programs specifically aimed at reducing stroke incidence and mortality in the stroke belt.
• He and other researchers spoke to reporters about the stroke belt at an American Heart Association conference on epidemiology and prevention in San Antonio last week.
• But most of the same stroke belt states also rank the highest in stroke deaths for whites and blacks, men and women, Thom said.
• For example, for black women, 72 percent of the geographic regions within the Stroke Belt were among the riskiest 20 percent nationwide in 1962.
• Some investigators also consider North Florida to be a part of the stroke belt, based on a stroke mortality rate higher than several states included in the region.
• Previously, theories about the Stroke Belt focused on environmental causes, from inadequate levels of the trace element selenium in the soil to soft water and a muggy climate.
• Geographic disparities in stroke incidence have been observed, including the existence of a " stroke belt " in the southeastern United States, but causes of these disparities have not been explained.
• Alabama is one of 11 states mainly in the Southeast that round out what is known as the Stroke Belt region because of the high incidence of stroke-related death in these states.
• For decades, doctors have been baffled by the apparent existence of a " stroke belt, " their name for a concentration of Southeastern states with the highest death rates from stroke.
• Ten Southern states have the highest stroke rates in the country, according to a new study that reinforces the region's reputation as the nation's " stroke belt ."
• For instance, the death rates from strokes have dropped more in Alabama and Mississippi than in the rest of the so-called Stroke Belt, which includes Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina.
• In 2011, CDC researchers mapped the occurrence of diabetes in the U . S . by county, finding that highest prevalence of diabetes is in a " diabetes belt " that has extensive overlap with the stroke belt.