According to an article in the January 2013 issue of the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, being married reduces the risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attack by about 50% in both men and women and across all ages. They evaluated more than 15,000 acute coronary events over 10 years.
The reasons for this finding is not clear but could possibly be related to having a better support system, being happy, home cooking, better health habits, having someone to share with and care about...these are just ideas. What do you think?
