{"id":109450,"date":"2025-03-07T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=109450"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:01:33","slug":"chronic-stress-boosts-stroke-risk-in-young-women","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.stress.org\/news\/chronic-stress-boosts-stroke-risk-in-young-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Stress Boosts Stroke Risk In Young Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Chronic stress can increase a young woman\u2019s risk of stroke<\/li>\n<li>Moderate stress increases stroke risk by 78% among women 18 to 49<\/li>\n<li>No link was found between stress and stroke in men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chronic stress can increase young women\u2019s risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/a-to-z-health\/stroke\/stroke-symptoms\">stroke<\/a>, a new study says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_top\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\"><\/div>\n<p>Moderate stress increases risk of stroke by 78% in women but not in men, researchers\u00a0reported in the journal\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/n.neurology.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1212\/WNL.0000000000213369\">Neurology<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore research is needed to understand why women who feel stressed, but not men, may have a higher risk of stroke,\u201d said senior researcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nicolas-martinez-majander-30b404230\/?originalSubdomain=fi\">Dr. Nicolas Martinez-Majander<\/a>, a neurologist at Helsinki University Hospital in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, we need to further explore why the risk of stroke in women was higher for moderate stress than high stress,\u201d Martinez-Majander added in a news release. \u201cKnowing more about how stress plays a role could help us to create better ways to prevent these strokes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers examined health data for 426 Europeans between 18 to 49 who\u2019d suffered a stroke with no known cause, and compared them to 426 healthy people who hadn\u2019t suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>All participants completed a 10-question survey about their stress levels, and stroke patients were asked to recall the stress they\u2019d faced in the month prior to their stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The survey included questions like, \u201cIn the last month, how often have you felt that you were unable to control the important things in your life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stroke patients were more likely to have at least moderate stress levels, researchers found. About 46% had moderate or high stress levels, compared to 33% of those who hadn\u2019t suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYounger people often experience stress due to the demands and pressures associated with work, including long hours and job insecurity, as well as financial burdens,\u201d Martinez-Majander said. \u201cPrevious research has shown that chronic stress can negatively affect physical and mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"asset-content subscriber-premium\">\n<p>After adjusting for other factors that affect stroke risk, researchers found that moderate stress was associated with a 78% increased risk of stroke in women.<\/p>\n<p>They did not find a link between stress and stroke in men, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne potential explanation for the higher self-perceived stress in women could be related to societal and psychological factors, where women often report experiencing more chronic stress due to juggling multiple roles, such as work, family, and caregiving,\u201d researchers speculated in their study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy contrast, men may show a stronger association with other risk factors, such as heavy alcohol consumption, which has been previously linked to an increased risk of stroke,\u201d the study continued.<\/p>\n<p>Men also are taught to under-report stress and \u201ctough it out,\u201d which might have affected the study\u2019s bottom-line results, researchers concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The American Institute of Stress has more on <a href=\"http:\/\/stress.org\">stress management<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCES: American Academy of Neurology, news release, March 5, 2025;\u00a0<em>Neurology,<\/em>\u00a0March 5, 2025<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_bottom_content\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\">Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/healthday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthday.com<\/a>, part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloxdigital.com\/products_services\/cen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLOX Digital Content Exchange<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/stressed-professional-woman-9063397\/\">Photo by cottonbro studio<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Chronic stress can increase a young woman\u2019s risk of stroke Moderate stress increases stroke risk by 78% among women 18 to 49 No link was found between stress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":110658,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[12,178,142,15,688],"tags":[137,141,143,145,147,165],"class_list":["post-109450","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-stress","category-burnout","category-health","category-mental-health","category-stress-tools","tag-american-institute-of-stress","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-relaxation","tag-stress-management","tag-stress-relief","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chronic Stress Boosts Stroke Risk In Young Women - The American Institute of Stress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chronic stress can increase a young woman\u2019s risk of stroke Moderate stress increases stroke risk by 78% among women 18 to 49No link was found between stress and stroke in men. 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