Stroke Map for Telemedicine
July 22, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Health demographers at the University of Pennsylvania have mapped out the geography of annual stroke incidence (800,000) and mortality (130,000) in the US. If one extended the Mason-Dixon Line, between Maryland and Pennsylvania, across to the northern boundary of Colorado, almost all of the ‘hot spots,” where strokes occur at 40% higher than the national average, and 150% more than ‘cool spots,” are south of 39 degrees N. latitude. An historical map of slavery and rebellion occupies roughly the same location, though today this also represents telestroke intervention’s land of opportunity. MORE
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