The more anxious you are, the greater your risk for stroke, warns a large new study conducted over a 22-year period. The new research—the first to uncover a link between stroke and anxiety—suggests that anxious people may have an up to 33 percent greater risk of stroke compared to more easygoing folks.
Earlier research linked stroke risk with depression . However, the new study—published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke—found that anxiety is an independent risk factor. When researchers accounted for incidents of depression among the over 6,000 study participants, the connection between stroke and anxiety remained strong.
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