Women Who Avoid Marital Fights May Be More Likely To Die

[Kadie]

Women Who Avoid Marital Fights May Be More Likely To Die

POSTED: 8:14 am PST February 17, 2005
UPDATED: 8:36 am PST February 17, 2005

Married women who avoid conflict with their spouses have an increased risk of dying from any cause, according to a news release from the Second International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke.

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Married men were about half as likely to die as unmarried men.

On the other hand, marital status and traditional measures of marital strain had no effect on women developing heart disease or dying. However, when considering more contemporary measures, two types of marital strain were found to be significantly related to the health of married women as well as men.

Women who reported usually or always keeping their feelings to themselves when in conflict with their husbands, known as self-silencing, had more than four times the risk of dying from any cause compared to women who always show their feelings, the researchers said.

more...
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/family/4207636/detail.html


Speak up women! To your health :toast:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. This is an interesting take on an old well known medical issue

I really think this kind of study does more harm than good as it genderizes the issue.

From most studies in medical journals, the quiet more reserved individual is far more likely to suffer from intrinsic stress than the person who expresses versus internalizing it...this is true in both hypertension and heart disease but I fail to see how this consortium could quanitfy and personalize it to women in relationships.

edited for clarity

[DrWeird]

2. I thought that was true...

for most any kind of athletic activity.

[bleedingheart]

3. A lesson for the Democratic Party in this article as well...

Going along just to get along is a bad idea...it kills you...

[zanana]

4. Then I'm going to live for a l-o-o-o-ng time. nt

[bleedingheart]

5. me too....

:evilgrin:

[DemExpat]

6. That is what I was coming here to reply ...

:evilgrin:

I might even be immortal! O8)

DemEx

[seabeyond]

7. i am going to live forever, not that we ever fight

my husband just loves who i am and so allows me to express all i think and feel and embraces it so. such a kind and gentle girlie man he is., now, ........his health. lol lol what does this do to the man. bahhahahaha

nah, he is prfectly fine. we just like each other

[lavenderdiva]

8. Glad to hear I'm not alone... n/t

[noamnety]

9. Worst Headline and First Sentence Ever

Simultaneously laughing and crying at the state of jourmalism in our country.