There's a country song by artist Roger Allen Wade that goes "If you're going to be dumb, you gotta be tough."
Well, it seems that being tough just isn't enough to keep you safe if you're dumb these days.
A new study in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health has found that "teenagers with lower levels of mental ability may be three times more likely to experience a stroke before the age of 50."
Basically, if you're dumb you have a much higher chance of having a stroke.
Researchers wrote in their findings, "We demonstrated that adolescents with medium and low cognitive function had twofold and threefold increased risks, respectively, for early-onset ischaemic stroke, after controlling for various confounders."
The researchers found the findings to be inconsistent, but are still adamant that "the insights from our study suggest that cognitive performance might aid in identifying individuals at higher stroke risk, thus facilitating timely interventions to address potential mediators such as health illiteracy, education, and health behaviours."
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