What is it about neighborhood characteristics that influence survival after a stroke or TIA?
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Using a random sample of stroke and TIA patients from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network Nationwide Inpatient Sample, Kapral and colleagues1 report, in this issue of Neurology®, that survival at 1- and 3-year intervals poststroke/TIA was higher in persons who lived in higher income neighborhoods at the time of their stroke/TIA than those who lived in lower income neighborhoods. Adjustment for covariates had a relatively modest attenuating effect on these differences, suggesting that the neighborhood income differences act …
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