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To: neverdem
. Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey

You can diagnose/report it yourself?
2 posted on 02/20/2008 10:08:59 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi
You can diagnose/report it yourself?

"She used the National Health and Nutrition Surveys, a federally funded project that gives periodic health checkups and questionnaires to a wide sample of Americans. Participants are routinely asked whether a doctor had ever told them they had had a stroke, and about 5,000 middle-aged people answered that question in each survey."

Some strokes affect memory. There could be under reporting.

25 posted on 02/20/2008 10:43:39 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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