<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3e8fb435-7eda-4705-8350-5eb54ecb2363/6EA8FFEC-FED9-4265-AC00-C1FD85681BF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=18619" href="http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=18619" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ivanhoe.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=18619"><P>(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Wealthier people are less likely to have a stroke, but the benefit appears to fade out with age.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=18619"><P>That's the key finding from Dutch researchers who looked at overall wealth (defined as the total of all assets, including inherited money, minus any liabilities), income, and educational levels in United States residents between the ages of 50 and 64, and those age 65 and over.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=18619">In the younger age group, having greater wealth significantly lowered the odds someone would have a stroke.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=18619"><P>The link between wealth and stroke risk is also supported by other results of the study, which showed poorer people are more likely to smoke, have high blood pressure, be overweight, have low levels of physical activity, and suffer from diseases like diabetes and heart disease -- all of which put them at increased risk for stroke.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6EA8FFEC-FED9-4265-AC00-C1FD85681BF5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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