Marriage reduces the risk of heart attack in both men and women and at all ages
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
A large population-based study from Finland has shown that being unmarried increases the risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attack in both men and women whatever their age. Conversely, say the study investigators, especially among middle-aged couples, being married and cohabiting are associated with "considerably better prognosis of acute cardiac events both before hospitalization and after reaching the hospital alive".