Telegraph (UK) 22 Nov 2010
Children whose parents divorced are more than twice as likely to suffer strokes as adults, according to research. The finding is from a life-long survey of over 13,000 people, of whom 10.4 per cent had experienced parental divorce during childhood. Esme Fuller-Thomson and colleagues at the University of Toronto carried out the analysis, which found that the children of divorced parents were 2.2 times more likely to have had a stroke. She said: \”We were very surprised that the association between parental divorce and stroke remained so strong even after we had adjusted for smoking, obesity, exercise and alcohol consumption.\”
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