- One thing that struck me, or that I thought of as an important aspect to consider when evaluating the results is that while there is a racial difference in long-term mortality, and that's clearly present, the absolute difference in the ten-year mortality rates was small. 76% in Blacks compared to 75% in Whites. So a little bit small in terms of absolute difference, but nonetheless important, given the very large number of stroke survivors in the US. So that's something that stood out to me. And finally, and this has to do a little bit with my own work, but the study is focused on 65 and older, right? It's focused on the Medicare population. And we know that racial disparities in stroke risk are greatest at younger ages. So there's also an interest in studying this younger age group, but that really would require a different data source or a different study population. That doesn't detract from the strength of the current work, but just to speak to an aspect that the study is not able to address is that important younger age group where we see large racial differences.