But what about the Jell-O Belt? Or the Stroke Belt? As it turns out, there are more than a dozen regions in the US that go by a "belt" moniker. Here are the most prominent "belt" regions in the ...

Geographic variations have been thought to contribute to the high stroke mortality in the southeastern United States Stroke Belt. However, an NIH funded national population-based cohort study (REasons ...

These belts are no fashion statements. Cinched across the heart of the South, bands of a deep, ugly red mark counties with higher than normal rates of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and several ...

Such 'stroke belts' have been identified in both England and Wales, and the United States. Researchers say that the poverty and malnourishment experienced generations ago in the industrial north ...

The general concentration of Alzheimer’s diagnoses was in the South, along the so-called ‘stroke belt’, where the population has a greater rate of cardiovascular risk factors. But even there ...