Women who experienced stalking or had restraining orders are at an increased risk of heart disease, according to a exhaustive study.

Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health released the results of a two decade study last month which revealed women who were stalked had a 41% higher risk of cardiovascular disease. For women who had obtained a restraining order, those chances were an astounding 70% higher when compared to those who had not.

“We saw this association, which frankly also blew me away,” Dr. Karestan Koenen, who led the team of Harvard researchers, told CBS News .

The study, published in the scientific journal Circulation , monitored 66,270 American nurses between the ages of 36 and 56 over a period of 20 years.

The survey found 11.7% of the nurses rep

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