A Cup Of Coffee A Day Keeps Stroke Risk Away In Females

A new research said that having more than a cup of coffee daily is associated to a 22 to 25 percent lower stroke risk.

The study also said that low or no coffee intake is linked with an augmented stroke risk.

The research, which has been conducted on 34,670 females aged between 49 to 83 years, discovered this after the scientists followed the study partakers for an average 10.4 years.

They detected that females who consumed more than a cup of coffee daily witnessed their stroke threat declined by between 20 to 25% as compared to those who consumed little or none.

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Parental Divorce in Childhood Linked to Stroke in Adulthood

Children who experience a parental divorce are over twice as likely to suffer a stroke at some point in their lives, according to new research presented in New Orleans at The Gerontological Society of America's (GSA) 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting.

This finding is based on a representative community sample of over 13,000 people from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey. The data analysis was conducted by Esme Fuller-Thomson, PhD, and a team of colleagues at the University of Toronto.

"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," said Fuller-Thomson.

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