Aphasia: New Health Risk For Blacks

Sun Reporter, The | June 12, 2003 | Copyright

Sun Reporter, The
06-12-2003
Aphasia -- which often hits persons who have suffered strokes -- is
emerging as a major concern in the African-American community, health care
providers are telling The Sun Reporter.

Some 167,000 U.S. residents die of strokes each year and doctors say
African Americans have more strokes at earlier ages and are more likely to
die from them, doctors say.

Few people know about aphasia, a condition that causes a language barrier
despite the fact that more people in the U.S. have aphasia than multiple
sclerosis, muscular dystrophy or Parkinson's Disease.

The Aphasia Center of ...

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