Divorce in midlife hurts women's heart health

Indonesia
December 14, 2006 3:02pm CST
Divorce apparently harms the cardiovascular health of women, but men's hearts appear to escape a split-up unscathed, a new study shows. The ill effects are largely due to the economic consequences, as well as the emotional distress, of divorce for women, conclude Dr. Zhenmei Zhang of Bowling Green State University in Ohio and Dr. Mark D. Hayward at the University of Texas at Austin. Zhang and Hayward also found that while divorce didn't appear to affect men's cardiovascular health, divorced, widowed and remarried men were all more likely to die sooner of non-heart-related causes than men who had stayed married to the same person.
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@lilaclady (28206)
• Australia
14 Dec 06
I think any stress, unhappiness or major negativity does harm to a woman's health mainly the heart as a woman thinks feels and loves so much she is more affected in that area.
@DRoddy77 (1776)
• United States
14 Dec 06
wow thats interesting and ironic considering that im sitting here crying because my husband and I are talkin about divorce and I just happen to live in Bowling Green, Ohio, lol..they didnt study me yet though.