date:Feb 15, 2019
didn't have any heart disease or diabetes and were obese, were twice as likely to have a clot-based or ischemic stroke, Mossavar-Rahmani said.
There was no such stroke linkage to women who were of normal weight or overweight. Overweight is defined as having a body mass index of 25 to 30, while obesity is over 30.
African-American women without a previous history of heart or diabetes were about four times as likely to have a clot-based stroke, Mossavar-Rahmani said, but that stroke risk didn't