Children of divorce face lifetime risk of stroke
Children whose parents divorce runescape gold face lifetime risk of stroke, compared with those whose parents' marriage stays intact during childhood, a new study reveals.
The study findings were presented on Monday at the Gerontological Society of America's annual meeting in New Orleans.
Researchers at the University of Toronto based their study on a survey of more than 13,000 Canadians, about 10 percent of whom had experienced parental divorce when they were young children or adolescents.
Nearly 1,400 of the 13,000 respondents had experienced parental divorce, and just fewer than two percent (248) said they had experienced a stroke at some point.
The research team looked into a wide range of potentially influential factors, including age, race, gender, socioeconomic background, educational background, adult mental health history, childhood physical abuse history, long-term parental unemployment, lifestyle issues (such as obesity, runescape money and smoking and drinking behaviors), and diabetes history.
Ultimately, the researchers determined none of these variables explained the bottom-line finding: that children of divorce seem to bear an approximately 2.2 times higher risk for lifetime stroke.
"I certainly don't want this to be taken to mean that children from divorced households are condemned to have strokes," said study author Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson, a professor of social work, medicine and nursing at the university.
"This is just one factor among buy wow gold many that may increase stroke risk," she noted. "And we don't know that it's causal, in the sense that divorce leads to a stroke. It could be that many other things are at work here that are related to divorce, but are not divorce itself. We just don't know yet."
"This needs to be replicated several times to make sure there really is this relationship," cautioned Fuller-Thomson. "But if this holds up, one possible explanation is that adverse child experiences may become physically embedded in the way you react to stresses later on in life, particularly in terms of dysfunctions in cortisol levels, which is what's involved in the fight-or- flight mechanism."
"It's possible. But that's just a hypothesis runescape accounts at this point," she added.