Study: Family break-up during childhood increases stroke risk as adults


By AGENCY
  • Family
  • Monday, 17 Mar 2025

A woman lies in a built-in computer tomograph (CT) in an emergency vehicle, supervised by an emergency doctor. Family break-up increases likelihood of stroke in later life, says a new study. — ANNETTE RIEDL//dpa

There have been volumes of health and psychological studies picking through effects of divorce on children and on how the fallout is sometimes felt decades later.

But children whose parents split up can sometimes be affected physically – and not just while young.

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