Stroke risk higher in U.S. than Europe: study

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"Barriers to health care, bad habits and poor diet put U.S. adults at far greater risk of stroke than Europeans, researchers in the Netherlands said on Friday.

U.S. women are twice as likely to have a stroke as European women, and American men have a 61 percent higher chance compared with European men...

He said Americans have more preventable risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.

'Obesity is definitely contributing to these differences, especially when you look at central European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands or Austria. Their prevalence of obesity is much less,' he said."

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