and other mental health problems may put sufferers at increased risk of a stroke, two studies have found.In the first, people who reported the worst depressive symptoms – admitting they’d ‘given up on life improvements’ – were found to have the greatest risk of a stroke.The research, published in the journal Neurology, found that in the year prior to suffering a stroke, survivors had been 46 per cent more likely to have had low mood when compared to a control group of people who had not had a stroke. The study also suggested that depressed people found it harder to recover after a stroke.
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