Okay, this is too much. What good did these researchers perform by investigating this link? These stroke-prone individuals cannot go back and ask their parents not to get a divorce so they won't be at risk of stroke. Could these researchers have used their resources to investigate other risk factors so we could all think about implementing strategies to reduce our risk of stroke? I think so. If not, perhaps they could do research in another field. I wonder, did they control for the number of divorces their parents had?
I am really upset by this news. Not because an association was found, but because an association that no one understands and no one can reduce was supposedly found. Now someone else will have to do more research to refute it. (or repudiate it, as Ms Palin would have it.)
Picture a Cathy AAaaaargh! here.
Here is the article that ignited my ire:
http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/22/do-kids-of-divorce-have-strokes-more-often/
