Children of divorce more prone to strokes as adults

Divorcing parents usually worry about the long-term emotional impact their split could have on the kids, but new research suggests there may be a physical fallout, too.

The Canadian research suggests the children of divorce may be at a higher risk of stroke in their own adult years.

Based on more than 13,000 adults living in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the research has found that those whose parents divorced when they were children had twice the odds of having a stroke at some time in their lives, a finding that held after researchers controlled for numerous known risk factors for stroke.

The study — believed the first to show a parental divorce-stroke link — does not prove cause and effect, merely an association, and the researchers stressed their finding needs to be replicated by others.

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