Parents Divorced? Expect to Have a Stroke Soon

So not only are your parents to blame for the bad genes they passed along to you, their selfish inability to get along and raise you in a two parent household could wind up killing you too.

Children whose parents divorce are more than twice as likely to suffer a stroke at some point during their lives than other children, according to a new study.

The link between the two held even when the researchers accounted for other known stroke risk factors, such as obesity, smoking and diabetes. It is the first time such a link has been shown, the researchers said.

The study may shed light on the impact such events, and the stress of childhood, have on adult health, said study researcher Esme Fuller-Thomson, a professor of social work, medicine, and nursing at the University of Toronto. The ways in which divorce and stroke risk may be linked should be further investigated, she said.

[Live Science]