Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Marriage is good for the heart - study :NDTV.com

Married people are less prone to heart attacks than singletons and more likely to recover if stricken, according to a Finnish study published on Jan 31, 2013.

Researchers collected data on 15,330 people in Finland between the ages of 35 and 99 who suffered "acute coronary events" between 1993 and 2002. Just over half of the patients died within 28 days of the attacks.

Unmarried men in all age groups were 58-66 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack than married ones. Single women were 60 to 65 per cent more likely to suffer acute coronary events, the Finnish researchers wrote in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

The research team said that healthier habits, higher and combined income and a superior support group could be some of the reasons why married people are less prone to heart attacks.

"Unmarried people have been found to be more likely depressed and according to previous studies depression seems to have an adverse effect on cardiovascular mortality rates," lead author Aino Lammintausta from the Turku University Hospital told sources.

The study included people from different race groups and social backgrounds and the findings "can roughly be thought to be applicable in other western countries," said Lammintausta.

For both genders, wedlock also considerably lowered heart attack mortality.

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