Study: Smoking boosts spouse's stroke risk
People who have a husband or wife who smokes have a higher risk of
suffering a stroke, a new study suggests. Researchers followed the
progress of 16,225 married adults ages 50 years and up for an
average of nine years. They found that those who had never smoked
but were married to a smoker were 42 percent more likely to suffer
a first-time stroke than non-smokers whose spouses had also never
smoked. The good news, researchers found, is that the excess risk
seems to dissipate after the smoking spouse quits.
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