Stroke among adults U.S. by ethnicity 2018

This statistic displays the percentage of adults in the U.S. who were told by a doctor they had a stroke as of 2018, by ethnicity. In that year, 3.9 percent of Black or African Americans reported that they had a stroke.

Percentage of adults in the U.S. who were told by a doctor they had a stroke as of 2018, by ethnicity

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Release date

November 2019

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2018

Number of respondents

base: 35,000 households

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

age-adjusted

Supplementary notes

In separate questions, respondents were asked if they had ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had: hypertension (or high blood pressure), coronary heart disease, angina (or angina pectoris), heart attack (or myocardial infarction), any other heart condition or disease not already mentioned, or a stroke.
* Refers to persons who indicated more than one race group, including those of Hispanic or Latino origin. Only two combinations of multiple race groups are shown due to small sample sizes for other combinations.

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