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" Chinese people may have a larger risk of stroke than their Caucasian counterparts, new research suggests. A study conducted at the University of Edinburgh looked at data from previous investigations that had examined strokes in Chinese or white people. Overall, they included information on more than 404,000 Chinese people and over 1.8 million Caucasians. Analysis revealed that Chinese people between the ages of 45 and 74 years were slightly more likely to have a stroke, with a range of 205-584 strokes per 100,000 people, compared with 170-335 per 100,000 Caucasians of the same age. Study author Dr Chung-Fen Tsai revealed that stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide, but the leading cause in China. &amp;#039;The global impact of stroke in the decades ahead is predicted to be greatest in middle-income countries, including China,&amp;#039; said the expert, whose findings are published in the journal Neurology. &amp;#039;It is important to gain a better understanding of how stroke affects different populations as we try to reduce the burden of the disease worldwide.&amp;#039; Chinese people also tended to have strokes at an earlier age than white people - typically between the ages of 66 and 70 years, compared with 72 to 76 years for Caucasians. View the abstract "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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