Stroke Death Rates, Whites Age 65+

Geographic Patterns: Stroke Death Rates for 2018 through 2020 for Whites Aged 65 Years and Older by County. The map shows that concentrations of counties with the highest stroke death rates – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in the Southeast, with heavy concentrations of high-rate counties in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Maryland, and Delaware. Pockets of high-rate counties are also found in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kansas, North Dakota, Oregon, Alaska, and California.

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