High risk of stroke is linked to mental health trends now
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Depression and other mental health problems may put sufferers at increased risk of a stroke, two studies have found.
In the first, people who reported the worst depressive symptoms – admitting they’d ‘given up on life improvements’ – were found to have the greatest risk of a stroke.
The research, published in the journal Neurology, found that in the year prior to suffering a stroke, survivors had been 46 per cent more likely to have had low mood when compared to a control group of people who had not had a stroke. The study also suggested that depressed people found it harder to recover after a stroke.
A second study examined the records of people with genes known to be linked to depression, bipolar disorder and seasonal affective disorder, and found those with the highest genetic risk were more likely to suffer a stroke.
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