Study Shows Children of Divorce Are Twice as Likely to Suffer Strokes

A surprising new study from the University of Toronto reveals that relates strokes to children of divorce. Researchers found that children who are the product of a divorce are more than twice as likely to have a stroke sometime during their lives when compared to children from non-divorced households. Even when other known contributing factors were added to the research, like smoking, diabetes, and obesity, the facts remained the same.

This study could have great ramifications in showing how a major life event like parent's divorcing could negatively impact your health later on in life. However, researchers from Toronto were quick to add that this doesn't doom children of divorce from having strokes.

The results came from the 2005 Canadian Health Survey that was sent out to more than 13,000 people. Since most strokes occur after the age of 65, most of the applicable respondents would have been born in 1940 or earlier when divorce was more uncommon and thus could have been more traumatic for the respondents.

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