A new study suggests that children of divorced parents have a higher risk of stroke.
A study published in the journal PLOS One found that the risk of stroke is 61 percent higher in older adults whose parents divorced during childhood or adolescence.
The researchers said that in this situation, the risk of stroke is on par with factors such as diabetes and depression.
The lead researcher and lecturer in psychology at Tyndale University in Ontario, Mary-Kate Schulke, said in a news release that even after controlling for most known risk factors associated with stroke, such as smoking, physical inactivity, low income and education, diabetes, and depression, parental divorce increases the risk of stroke in older age by 61 percent.
