Relationship between parental divorce, stroke risk
Individuals who experienced parental divorce in childhood may be more likely to have a stroke as adults.
In a study published in PLOS ONE, investigators used data from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to analyze the potential link between childhood parental divorce and stroke risk among 13,205 participants aged 65 years and older.
The investigators noted that 7.3% of the respondents had a physician-diagnosed stroke and 13.9% of them experienced parental divorce prior to 18 years of age. Compared with those who didn’t experience parental divorce, individuals who did experience parental divorce had a greater risk of stroke. Male respondents had a higher stroke risk overall compared with female respondents.
Further, those with depression, patients with diabetes, individuals with a history of smoking and those who were physically inactive had a higher likelihood of experiencing stroke.
The investigators concluded that mechanisms such as chronic stress and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation may underlie the observed association.
Read more: PLOS ONE
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