Cheeseburgers are good and strokes are bad. Unfortunately, when it comes to fast food cheeseburgers - as in fast food restaurants - the two might be linked according new data compiled and put together by researchers at the University of Michigan.
So, cheeseburgers are good but a healthy lifestyle is better. (Depending on the cheeseburger.)
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Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor looked at stroke data from the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi Project and found that between January 2000 and June 2003 there were 1,247 ischemic strokes in Nueces County, Texas (An ischemic stroke is caused by a blocked artery to the brain depriving the brain of blood and oxygen, resulting in tissue damage.). They also found 262 fast food restaurants in the county.
Researchers found that those who lived in areas with the most fast food restaurants had a 13% higher relative risk of stroke than those who lived in areas with the least fast food restaurants, after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic issues.
For every fast food restaurant in a neighborhood, the relative risk of stroke went up 1%.
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