Too much fried fish may contribute to the high rate of stroke in
America's "stroke belt," according to a new study.

The results showed that people living in the stroke belt — including
residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana — were about 30 percent
more likely to eat two or more servings of fried fish every week than
those living in the rest of the country, the researchers said.

And blacks who are known to have an increased risk of stroke
regardless of where they live, were more than 3.5 times more likely to
eat two or more servings of fried fish per week than whites.

Inhabitants of the stroke belt are 20 percent more likely to die from
stroke than those living in the rest of the country. And those in the
stroke "buckle" — an area of the stroke belt that includes the coastal
plains of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — are 40 percent
more likely to die from stroke, said study researcher Fadi Nahab of
Emory University in Atlanta.

Fried fish, Nahab said, may be contributing to these racial and
geographic disparities

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