Differences in fish consumption may help explain the existence of the so-called Stroke Belt covering eight states in the southeastern U.S., a cross-sectional study showed.
Residents of those states ate fewer servings of fish overall (2.01 versus a national average of 2.11 per week), and when they do consume fish, it is most often fried (0.68 servings of fried fish versus 0.62 servings nationwide per week), Fadi Nahab, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues reported online ahead of the Jan. 11 print issue of Neurology.
Living in the Stroke Belt -- which includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana -- was independently associated with eating less than the recommended minimum of two servings of nonfried fish per week, even after adjustment for potential confounders (OR 1.32, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.50).
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