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new study shows that people in unhappy marriages have higher risk of getting broken heart. A bad marriage is riskier for older women. They get more heart disease than men because of stress of being in relationship gone wrong. study is from Michigan State University in USA. Lead researcher Dr Hui Lui said the stress of being in unhappy marriage has a big impact on the health of our heart. Dr Lui said one reason for older women having more heart problems is because they are generally more caring. A wife is more likely to provide support and care for her sick husband than other way round. Also, if wife is sick and cannot look after her husband, she can get stressed about this.

Dr Lui's team studied health of 1,200 married men and women aged 57 to 85 over five-year period. The researchers asked married couples questions about their marital quality. They asked about whether they spent free time with or apart from their partner. They also asked if they could trust and rely on their spouse, and whether their spouse asks them to do too many things and is unfair. doctors looked at quality of marriages to see who was happy and who was not. They then compared this with number of heart attacks and strokes people had. People in bad marriages were more depressed, more obese and had higher blood pressure.