Thus, researchers note, nearly 800,000 strokes are recorded each year in the United States alone. Previous research has established the role of certain sociodemographic risk factors, as well as links between adverse events and childhood adversity and stroke incidence.
Analysis reveals that:
- participants who experienced parental divorce before the age of 18 had a more than 60% increased risk of stroke in adulthood;
- this association holds regardless of gender and after accounting for possible confounding factors, including diabetes, depression and even social support.
What underlying mechanism? The association study does not demonstrate the cause and effect relationship. Other factors – not taken into account – may play a role in this association, including blood pressure, cholesterol, contraceptive use, age at the time of divorce as well as the type of stroke. However, the association holds even in the absence of abuse and other childhood trauma and
-the magnitude of this association between parental divorce and stroke later in life is quite comparable to that observed with more established risk factors for stroke…
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