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A new study that people in unhappy marriages have a higher risk of a broken heart. A bad marriage is riskier for older women. They more heart disease than men because of the stress of being in a relationship wrong. The study is from Michigan State University in the USA. Lead researcher Dr Hui Lui the stress of being in an unhappy marriage has a big impact on the health of our heart. Dr Lui said one reason for older women more heart problems is because they generally more caring. A wife is more likely to support and for her sick husband than the other way round. Also, if a wife is sick and cannot after her husband, she can get stressed about this.

Dr Lui's team the health of 1,200 married men and women aged 57 to 85 over a five-year period. The researchers the married couples questions about their marital quality. They asked about whether they free time with or apart from their partner. They also asked if they could and rely on their spouse, and whether their spouse asks them to too many things and is unfair. The doctors at the quality of the marriages to see who was happy and who was not. They then this with the number of heart attacks and strokes people . People in bad marriages more depressed, more obese and higher blood pressure.