We all know that job-related stres ...

We all know that job-related stres is bad for your descendants pressure. But how about marital woes? Can an unhappy relationship also have a negative impact upon your heart? The answer is ye according to couple recent studies. In one cogitation that appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr Brian Baker and colleagues fix out to evaluate whether marital factors had any influence through the blood pressure and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) in patients with mild hypertension. The conclusions? At the last of the 3-year study, participants who were unsatisfied with their marriages had increased offspring pressure. In the other paper, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and is part of the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk thought (FemCorRisk), women aged 30 to 65 who scored high in succession indicators of marital stress had almost three times the risk of a coronary consequence (cardiac death, acute myocardial infarction, etc) than did women who scored low

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