Children of divorcees 'more likely to have strokes'

The finding is from a life-long survey of over 13,000 people, of whom 10.4 per cent had experienced parental divorce during childhood.

Esme Fuller-Thomson and colleagues at the University of Toronto carried out the analysis, which found that the children of divorced parents were 2.2 times more likely to have had a stroke.

She said: "We were very surprised that the association between parental divorce and stroke remained so strong even after we had adjusted for smoking, obesity, exercise and alcohol consumption."

From The Telegraph