Divorce of parents - the cause of stroke

Children of divorced parents the risk of strokes in adulthood grows to more than double compared to children from intact families. To such conclusion the Canadian researchers.

Scientists from the University of Toronto, analyzed the 13,000 people living on the basis of the state statistical service. 10, 4% in the childhood experience strong stress caused parents' divorce . It turned out that these children the risk of stroke   in subsequent years it grew in two, 2-fold. This convinced the study's author Esme Fuller-Thomson and colleagues.

"We were very surprised by such a strong link between parents' divorce   and the risk of stroke - Says Fuller-Thomson. - Of course, we took into account all other risk factors such as obesity, smoking, drinking alcohol and sports activities. "

Dr. Fuller-Thomson stresses that children divorced parents Of course, not sentenced to strokes. But the separation of fathers and mothers for children becomes an additional risk factor. "We do not know what it is here is the reason - underlines the scientist. - Maybe it's own divorce, and maybe some other factors associated with it."

Child psychologists have repeatedly stated that parents' divorce   It is the strongest psychological stress for the baby, which can serve as a trigger for a number of mental illnesses and complications, including depression and aggression. Meanwhile, it is known that psychological trauma received in childhood, affect the cardiovascular system.

But single moms, as it turns out, children at risk of becoming victims of strokes in exactly the same degree as that raised in two-parent families.

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