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We dug through some stats on health in Bushwick to find out.
We dug through some stats on health in Bushwick to find out.
Bushwick has some work to do on the healthy living front.
According to the Bushwick Community Health Profile, only 68 percent of residents consider themselves healthy; in 2012, Bushwick had the highest rate of stroke hospitalizations in the entire city with 470 per 100,000 people.
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