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As he discusses what he has
learned at Henry Ford, Tanne beams
with ideas for the future of stroke
medicine. "It's exciting to develop
things that aren't there now.
"But it won't be easy," he says.
"Yes, the public insurance program in
Israel is very good, but it makes the
financial burden extremely difficult.
What's great is that Israel is a small
country and everyone has access to
hospital, everyone has insurance and
the EMS are excellent. The problem
is to find the funding for equipment
and other things," he says.
Levine agrees that Tanne's mission
will be extremely challenging. "He's
got his work cut our for him because
there are so many people who think
you just don't do anything about
stroke and really it's one of the most
imminently preventable — and treat-
able — diseases." LE-
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Sephardim At
Stroke Risk

Beyond his research on using t-PA
for strokes, Dr. David Tanne has
been involved with a study that
looked at the risks of dying from
stroke among 10,000 Jewish male
civil servants and municipal
employees born in Israel or immi-
grating to there from Europe, the
Middle East or northern Africa.
Presenting the results to the
American Heart Association Con-
ference on Stroke in Orlando,
Fla., last winter, he noted that in a
21 year period, 282 men in the
study died of an ischemic stroke,
the most common form of stroke
that occurs when blood flow to
part of the brain is blocked.
"What's really interesting about
that study," Tanne says, "is that
Jewish Israeli residents born in
North Africa and Mideast Asia
were at a higher risk for dying
from stroke than counterparts
born in Europe. This suggests that
unidentified factors contribute to
the higher risk of stroke among
Sephardic Jews. We need to do
more research in this area and this
is one of the areas I want to work
with back in Israel,"
As with the general population,
the major risk factors that con-
tributed to death from stroke were
older age, high blood pressure, the
presence of diabetes and cigarette
smoking.

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