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by Brunilda Nazario, MD Dec. 13, 2012 — Older adults with high
levels of distress are more likely to have certain kinds of
strokes than those who aren’t as troubled, a new study shows.
“It’s really trying to capture more than negative mood. A lot of
studies have looked a depression and how it relates to heart
disease or stroke risk, and in this case what we really wanted
to get at was a general tendency to have a negative outlook on
life,” says researcher Susan A. Everson-Rose, PhD, MPH,
associate director of the Program in Health Disparities Research
at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Tracking Distress
in Older Adults For the study, researchers surveyed more than
4,000 adults over age 65 in the three neighborhoods in Chicago.
The majority of people who took part were women and African-
American. Their average age was 77. Each person in the study
gave a detailed medical history. The