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To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Dr. Ho and colleagues1 dealing with the relationship between diabetes and stroke mortality in women. The results of their study demonstrated that women with diabetes mellitus and no prevalent cardiovascular diseases (CVD) had a 3-fold–increased fatal stroke risk compared with nondiabetic women without CVD. They proposed that, although stroke mortality was highest among women with prior stroke, diabetes carries a fatal stroke risk similar to that of a history of prior stroke and may warrant more aggressive treatment strategies in the future prevention of stroke. Numerous …
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