Sunday, January 13, 2013

Married people are THREE times more likely to survive middle age!

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11:15 EST, 11 January 2013 | (Daily Mail Reporter)

Being married could be the key to a longer life—by improving your chances of surviving middle age, claim scientists.

People who never married were almost three times as likely to die early than those who had been in a stable marriage throughout their adult life, US researchers found.

The new research suggests for the first time that not having a spouse in midlife increases the risk of dying during those years.

Being single after 40, or losing a partner without marrying again, increased the risk of early death during middle age and cut the chances of getting to 60.

Even when personality and risky behaviors such as smoking and drinking were accounted for, married people were still 2.3 times more likely to survive. …

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