Marriage

1. Bad marriage bad for a
woman's heart
Effect of marital quality becomes stronger with age, shows study

2. Contd..
A bad marriage really could lead to a broken
heart, new research looking at how
marriage quality affects cardiovascular
health suggests. A study by US researchers
found older couples who are in an unhappy
marriage have a higher risk of heart disease
than those in a happy marriage.
A team at Michigan State University and the
University of Chicago said the risk is greatest
for married women aged between 70 and
80-years-old. The team analyzed five years
of data from 1,200 married men and
women who participated the National Social
Life, Health and Aging Project. The
participants were aged between 57 and 85-
years-old at the beginning of the project.

3. The men and women had been asked questions
about the quality of their marriage and their
cardiovascular health, such as whether they had
experienced heart attacks, strokes or high blood
pressure as part of the project.
Sociology professors Hui Lui and Linda Waite
examined the relationship between marital
quality and heart disease and whether any
relationship varies depending on age or gender.
Lui said negative marital quality, such as
husbands and wives being overly critical or
demanding, had a bigger effect on heart health
than positive marital quality, such as spouses
being supportive. “In other words,“ the research
said, “a bad marriage is more harmful to your
heart health than a good marriage is beneficial.“

4. The effect marital quality has on heart health
becomes much stronger with age. The team
found the stress resulting from a bad
marriage may stimulate more, and more
intense, cardiovascular responses of the
increasing frailty and declining immune
function that develops in old age.
Lui said marriage quality had a bigger impact
on women's heart health, which may be
because women tend to “internalize negative
feelings“, making them more likely to be
depressed. “Marriage counselling is focused
largely on younger couples,“ said Lui. “But
these results show that marital quality is just
as important at older ages, even when the
couple has been married 40 or 50 years.“

5. The study `Bad marriage, broken heart? Age and gender
differences in the link between marital quality and
cardiovascular risks among older adults' is published in
the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour.
THE BROKEN HEART SYNDROME
This is a rare and temporary condition where part of a
person's heart suddenly becomes weakened or
`stunned', forcing the rest of the heart to work harder.
What causes it?
There are various theories as to what causes the
condition. British Heart Foundation (BHF) says evidence
suggests the sudden, excessive release of hormones -
usually adrenaline -during these stressful periods causes
the `stunning' of part of the heart muscle.

6. What are the symptoms?
People experiencing it will often have chest
pains and breathlessness similar to those seen
in a heart attack. However, the survival rate for
those who are discharged from hospital after
suffering from the condition is nearly 100%.
Who is affected by it?
The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine says that of the women in their
research who were being examined for heart
abnormalities in a catheterization lab, between
5 and 7% will be diagnosed with broken heart
syndrome. Thompson said that some studies
suggest the syndrome affects women more
than men

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