Which population group is indicated as more likely to have stroke?

• A. Caucasian
• B. African and Indian
• C. East Asian
• D. Hispanic

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is that stroke risk varies with ethnicity because of differences in how common major risk factors are—high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and smoking—and how health care and preventive care are accessed in different populations. In many studies, people of African descent show the highest stroke incidence and earlier onset, largely tied to a greater burden of hypertension and related vascular damage. People of Indian (South Asian) heritage also carry a notably elevated risk, driven by high rates of diabetes, central obesity, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. When you consider these two groups together, they tend to be identified as having a higher stroke risk compared with Caucasian, East Asian, or Hispanic populations in typical epidemiological patterns. So, the group with African and Indian heritage is more likely to have stroke based on these risk-factor patterns.