From USC
For women who are ages 35 to 64, there's some worrisome, uh-oh kind of information about that zaftig thing that too many of them have going on -- it may be a big contributor to them suffering strokes at three times the incidence that it occurs for men of the same age, researchers say. In a scrutiny of data on more than 10,000 adults, including almost 2,200 of them in the 35-64 age group, yes, it was only a relative sliver of them, but roughly 5% reported they had suffered a stroke. Women 35-64, however, were three times more likely to have had stroke, confirming earlier, emerging data that women 45-54 were twice as likely for stroke occurrence as men of the same age. While many other health indicators -- such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels -- registered better for many women in the 35-64 age group, they did show greater issues than did men with abdominal obesity.
Women 35-64 found three times more likely than men of same age to suffer strokes
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