Preventing stroke disability in a community with high rate of poverty

The use of thrombolysis, medications to break up blood clots, for acute ischemic stroke reduces post-stroke disability, but it is underutilized. This particularly affects Black individuals, who experience more strokes, often at a younger age, than white individuals. Black people also have more disability after a stroke.

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