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Big increase in middle-aged women's strokes linked to belly

thebetterhealthstore.com — Strokes are occuring even among women using medicines to control their cholesterol and blood pressure. These should have helped prevent strokes. But here's what the numbers reveal: Women's waistlines are nearly two inches bigger than they were a decade ago. And those numbers correspond with the increase in strokes.

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