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

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

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