Medical News: Happy Marriages Keep Blood Pressures Normotensive - in Psychiatry, General Psychiatry from MedPage Today: "PROVO, Utah, March 20 -- Happily married men and women are more likely to waltz through life hand-in-hand with normal blood pressures than are singles, investigators here found. Action Points
Explain to patients that this study suggests that higher marriage satisfaction might confer health advantages over single life or an unhappy marriage.
Note that the findings were based on only a single day of blood pressure monitoring and participants responses to questionnaires.
Those partners in happy marriages had significantly lower waking and 24-hour blood pressure compared with singles, even those with a network of social support, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., of Brigham Young University, and colleagues, reported in the April issue of Annals"/.../
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