“Our study found that Mexican American people who spoke only Spanish had worse neurologic outcomes three months after having a stroke than Mexican American people who spoke only English or were bilingual …"

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That’s a damn weird correlation. I wonder what causes it, given that so many factors might affect the post-stroke neurologic outcome, potentially unknown and thus not adjusted by the researchers.

I’m not too informed on USA and Mexicans, but my first bet would be non-linguistic in nature: food. I wonder if language change isn’t correlated to dietary changes (both change as the individual shifts culture), and that those dietary changes might increase the likelihood of a favourable outcome.

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I agree. I looked up the article to see what journal published it, and Neurology is a highly regarded, peer-reviewed journal.

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