Get Up And Do Something: Married People Have Lower Heart Risks

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Married People Have Lower Heart Risks Feb 4th 2013, 11:01 Married people are less likely to die from a heart attack than their single counterparts, a new study found. The Finnish study found men and women were twice as likely to die after an acute coronary sydnrome event such as a heart attack if they were unmarried. Unmarried people also had higher rates of ACS, with the disparity increasing over the 15-year study period. "Our study suggests that marriage reduces the risk of ACS and death due to ACS in both men and women and at all ages," Dr. Aino Lammintausta of Turku University Hospital in Turka, Finland, and co-authors reported online in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. "Furthermore, especially among middle-age men and women, being married and cohabiting are associated with considerably better prognosis of incident ACS events, both before hospitalization and after reaching the hospital alive.

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