THURSDAY, April 13, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Losing a job might increase your risk for a fatal stroke, a new study from Japan suggests.
"While the Japanese culture is different from the U.S. culture, the implication is that job security could help reduce stroke risk," said lead researcher Dr. Ehab Eshak.
Eshak is a visiting associate professor of public health at Osaka University's Graduate School of Medicine.
Among roughly 42,000 Japanese adults, Eshak's team found that those who remained employed over 15 years had a lower risk of stroke than those who lost a job.
Compared with steadily employed workers, jobless men had a nearly 60 percent higher risk of stroke. And they were 120 percent more likely to die from it, Eshak said.
Women with a jobless stint suffered, too. They were over 50 percent more likely to have a stroke and nearly 150 percent more likely to die from it, the study found.
Stroke -- which affects arteries leading to the brain -- is a leading cause of death and disability in developed countries.
Experts weren't surprised by the findings.
"Losing a job can be very stressful and have consequences for your health," said Dr. Ralph Sacco, chairman of neurology at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Although cultural differences could have implications, the study is consistent with the evidence that stressful life events can have an impact on vascular risks, said Sacco, who wasn't involved in the study.
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