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14/03/2014
The research, which has been carried out by Oxford University, revealed that married women are 28% less likely to die from heart disease. Despite the odds, it was also discovered that marriage actually doesn't make a difference to a woman's chance of developing heart disease in the first place.
Reasons for this are unknown, but the team behind the study believe one explanation is that the partners of married women may encourage them to seek early medical treatment for symptoms. Other factors are a possibility as well. For example, previous studies have shown that partners are more likely to encourage their other half to take medication and make changes in unhealthy lifestyles.
The findings have been published following the latest analysis of data from a UK study of women's health run by Oxford University researchers, the Million Women Study.
The study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, included 730,000 women who were, on average, 60 years old.
Over a nine-year period, 30,000 of these women developed heart disease and 2,000 died from the condition. The researchers found that married women, or those living with a partner, had the same risk of developing heart disease as unmarried women – this included single, widowed and divorced women – but the chance of dying from heart disease was 28% lower.
The study took a number of factors into account that could have influenced the results, such as age, socio-economic status and lifestyle, but the lower risk of death from heart disease remained.
Dr Sarah Floud, of Oxford University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit, explained: "Married women were no less likely to develop heart disease than women who were not married, but they were less likely to die from it.
"This means that, over 30 years, about three in 100 married women would die from heart disease compared with about four in 100 women who are not married or living with a partner."
(JP/IT)
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Married Women Less Likely To Die From Heart Disease
Married women are less likely to die from heart disease than unmarried women, according to a new study.The research, which has been carried out by Oxford University, revealed that married women are 28% less likely to die from heart disease. Despite the odds, it was also discovered that marriage actually doesn't make a difference to a woman's chance of developing heart disease in the first place.
Reasons for this are unknown, but the team behind the study believe one explanation is that the partners of married women may encourage them to seek early medical treatment for symptoms. Other factors are a possibility as well. For example, previous studies have shown that partners are more likely to encourage their other half to take medication and make changes in unhealthy lifestyles.
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The findings have been published following the latest analysis of data from a UK study of women's health run by Oxford University researchers, the Million Women Study.
The study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, included 730,000 women who were, on average, 60 years old.
Over a nine-year period, 30,000 of these women developed heart disease and 2,000 died from the condition. The researchers found that married women, or those living with a partner, had the same risk of developing heart disease as unmarried women – this included single, widowed and divorced women – but the chance of dying from heart disease was 28% lower.
The study took a number of factors into account that could have influenced the results, such as age, socio-economic status and lifestyle, but the lower risk of death from heart disease remained.
Dr Sarah Floud, of Oxford University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit, explained: "Married women were no less likely to develop heart disease than women who were not married, but they were less likely to die from it.
"This means that, over 30 years, about three in 100 married women would die from heart disease compared with about four in 100 women who are not married or living with a partner."
(JP/IT)
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