In the latest study to support the notion that engagement in a positive, long-term relationship can provide tangible health benefits, Uri Goldbourt, from f Tel Aviv University (Israel), and colleagues have found that happily married men are at reduced risks of death due to stroke. The researchers analyzed data collected in the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study, which enrolled 10,059 men, mean age 49.2 years. Assessing marital status at the study’s start, as well as the numbers of unmarried and married men who died, the team found a higher risk of fatal stroke in the unmarried versus married men (8.4% versus 7.1%), after adjusting for confounding factors. Follow-up interviews of the marked men that rated their marriage (successful to unsuccessful), the team found that those men who were involved in unsuccessful marriages were at an equal risk of death by stroke as single men.
Happily Married Men At Reduced Risks of Death by Stroke
Goldbourt U. "Unmarried working men and unhappily married men at age 40-65 carry excess risk of 34-year stroke mortality" (Abstract P72); presented at the American Stroke Association 2010 International Stroke Conference.
