Study reveals when marriage leads to death

Tomorrow– A recent study reveals that living with partners who are not able to listen to problems has a long-term negative impact on people's health.

The accumulation of stress can be enough to make people more likely, 42%, to die prematurely.

According to the American Psychological Association, chronic stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung disease, accidents, cirrhosis and suicide.

A team of psychologists from the University of Edinburgh evaluated a group of about 1,200 participants aged 25 to 74, who had a husband or lived with housing partners.

"The results suggest that if individuals have partners to help them, it helps them cope with daily stress, which has side effects on health," said Dr. Sarah Stanton, lead author of the program. study.

Participants were evaluated over a 20-year period and the study began between 1995 and 1996 as part of the US National Mid-Life Survey (MIDUS).

Participants were asked to rate how much they believed their partners understood and cared for them and appreciated them. After 10 years, in 2006, participants answered the same questions.

The researchers found that people who did not respond well to daily stress felt that their partner had become less interested in them in the last 10 years.

They found that participants who reported that their partners were less reactive had a 42% higher risk of dying in the 20 years of study.

This association can be explained by people's ability to deal with the negative emotions caused by daily stress, perhaps because their partners can not hear them, the researchers said.

Although the results published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine are limited to a number of people, they can have a significant effect when they are placed within larger limits.

Researchers have not explained how the fight against stress can increase the risk of death, but chronic stress contributes in different ways to the destruction of the body.

In the past, the modification of intestinal bacteria, increased blood pressure and increased risk of stroke have resulted in increased cortisol levels, increased glucose production and a limitation in effects of insulin, likely to lead to a misdiagnosis of diabetes.

Stress causes the production of estrogen, which can accelerate breast cancer