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Monday, February 20, 2006

Your partner's death tie to you

If your marriage partner is hospitalized for an extended period, that increases your risk of death.

Among elderly people, a spouse's hospitalization for certain ailments substantially raises his or her partner's likelihood of dying, according to the largest study ever to quantify such effects. The risk is especially great within the first month after the spouse enters the hospital.

Still, other studies show that marriage, overall, increases the participants life spans. This is more the case for men than women, by the way.

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