How marriage helps you keep heart diseases away

If you have any health problems, it's good to get married, at least that's what specialists believe, according to the BBC. Researchers are convinced that marriage is good for health, because in the face of a major heart risk factor such as high cholesterol, the chances of survival may increase, writes Gandul. Researchers gathered for this study a million people with high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol. Yet, married people managed to more easily overcome health problems than lonely ones. Dr. .

Paul Carter and colleagues at Aston School, who have dealt with this study, have shown that marriage can help you survive a heart attack. Recent research at the British Cardiology Society conference shows that men and women of 50, 60 or 70 years of high cholesterol were 16 percent more likely to be alive after 14 years if they were married. The same was true for diabetics. The picture was less clear about divorced or widowed people. The researchers also did not test whether married people had a happy marriage.

But they think it's important to have someone special in your life. We're not saying everyone should get married. We need to take on the beneficial effects of marriage and to use our friends, family and social support networks in the same way, Carter. Our social interactions, like other risk factors, such as hypertension, are determined for our health and well-being. Mike Knapton.