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Stroke

Risk may be associated with mother's health

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 17th, 2003

Malnourished pregnant women generations ago may account for today's increased stroke risk in certain parts of Britain and the United States, according to a study in journal Stroke.

In both countries, there are geographic variations in stroke death that are not explained by adult lifestyle, say authors David J.P. Barker, FRS, of the Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the University of Southampton, England, and Daniel T. Lackland, DrPH, professor of Epidemiology of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, USA.

There are well-recognized "stroke belts" in the United States, England, and Wales. In the United...

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