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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent

Black people in England twice as likely to suffer stroke as white counterparts

Closeup of a doctor measuring a male patient's blood pressure
People from black backgrounds are up to 47% more likely to have high blood pressure. Photograph: Andriy Popov/Alamy

People from black backgrounds in England are twice as likely to experience strokes as their white counterparts, while also being less likely to receive timely care, according to the largest study of its kind.

The study, conducted by researchers at King’s College London and presented at the European Stroke Organisation conference, analysed 30 years of stroke incidents from the South London Stroke Register, one of the longest-running population-based stroke registers in the world.

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