Doctor, did stress cause my stroke?

Jennifer J. Majersik

doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000002107

Doctor, did stress cause my stroke?

Jennifer J. Majersik, MD, MS

From the Department of Neurology, Stroke Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Correspondence to Dr. Majersik: jennifer.majersik{at}hsc.utah.edu

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As a stroke neurologist, my patients or their partners regularly ask me whether stress caused their stroke. This is a particularly common question when the stroke occurred in the midst of a difficult life event, or to someone young, working extra hours at school or work. Up to this point, I really have not known how to answer my worried patients, but the report by Huang et al.¹ in this issue of Neurology® sheds new light on their important question.