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Thursday, Aug. 4 HealthDay News)-people living in a region of South-Eastern United States known as the"stroke belt" is known, that have significantly higher stroke deaths as the rest of the country. New research shows that these people are also vulnerable to sepsis, a severe illness in which bacteria overwhelmed the blood stream.
"In 2010, we have death rates of sepsis in the United States," said Dr. Henry Wang, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of emergency medicine. "They put on the map, we saw that the States with highest sepsis mortality a cluster in the South-East of the United States, made closely mirror the appearance of the stroke belt."
The "stroke belt" covers 11 States from Louisiana to Virginia.
Sepsis, triggered by infections such as meningitis and bacterial pneumoniacan cause shock, organ failure and death. In the United States sepsis caused around 200 000 deaths and 750 000 hospitalizations every year, similar as the number of deaths from breast cancer and heart disease, UAB researchers said in a press release.
Wang said that he plans to further research into why life in the South-Eastern United States of this increased risk of sepsis is associated with.
"There are many possible causes for this geographical cluster," Wang said. "Possibilities are diet, behavior genetics and even the environment and air pollution pre-existing medical conditions, health,."
He said he hoped that the new research will lead to new ways to prevent sepsis.
--Mary Elizabeth Dallas
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Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham, press release, 29 July 2011
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