And it’s official: bad relationships are bad for your heart.
A study led by a Brigham
Young University
researcher found that unhappily married people have higher blood
pressure than both happily married people and singles. The study of 204 married
people and 99 singles—none of whom had live-in partners—revealed a clear blood
pressure hierarchy in social relationships. And from lowest to highest, the
winners are: 1) happily married folk; 2) singles with a good social network; 3)
singles without a good social network; 4) the unhappily married.
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