May 2, 2015
McDonald's, with almost 16,000 outlets, is the largest fast-food hamburger chain in the United States. Many of the states where McDonald's iconic Golden Arches dominate the landscape are also, coincidentally, states with the highest rates of obesity and deaths due to heart disease.
Dr. Lewis Morgenstern, director of the stroke program at the University of Michigan Hospital, led a study into the relationship between the concentration of fast food restaurants in a neighborhood and strokes in that neighborhood.