Study: Stroke deaths higher where fried fish aplenty - USATODAY.com: The steep rate of death from stroke in a swath of Southern states often referred to as America's 'stroke belt' may be linked to a higher consumption of fried fish in that region, new research suggests.
A study published in today's Neurology shows people living in the stroke belt — which comprises North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana — eat more fried fish and less non-fried fish than people living in the rest of the country, and African-Americans eat more fried fish than Caucasians.
'Differences in dietary fish consumption, specifically in cooking methods, may be contributing to higher rates of stroke in the stroke belt and also among African Americans,' says study author Fadi Nahab, medical director for the Stroke Program at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
