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A new analysis suggests that while women and men have an equal lifetime risk of stroke, only 37% of participants in clinical trials of stroke treatments are female. This gender bias could make the findings of some trials unreliable for female patients, who tend to experience more severe impairment after a stroke. The authors of

Medical News Today has interviewed Prof. Cheryl Giscombé, an expert on stress-related health disparities among African Americans, about a source of pressure that many African-American women experience: the obligation to project an image of strength or that of fulfilling a ‘superwoman’ role. In 2010, Prof. Cheryl Giscombé, Ph.D., published a paper entitled Superwoman Schema: African