Preventable cardiovascular risk factors are responsible for up to 80 percent of heart attacks.
Researchers at Aston Medical School in Birmingham, England, found
that being married increases the survival rate for patients with heart
disease.
The study, presented today at
the ESC Congress 2017, of 929,552 adult patients hospitalized in
England between 2000 and 2013 found that of patients who had a heart
attack, married patients were 14 percent more likely to survive compared
to single patients.
The study was the largest of its kind to date and consisted of 25,287
people who had a previous heart attack, 168,431 who had high blood
pressure, 53,055 who had high cholesterol and 68,098 had type 2
diabetes.
Researchers found that
marriage was a protective factor for patients with the three largest
risk factors for heart disease. Married patients with high cholesterol
were 16 percent more likely to survive the study period, married
patients with type 2 diabetes had a 14 percent higher survival rate and
married patients with high blood pressure had a 10 percent higher
survival rate.
"Marriage, and having a spouse at home, is likely to offer emotional
and physical support on a number of levels ranging from encouraging
patients to live healthier lifestyles, helping them to cope with the
condition and helping them to comply to their medical treatments," Dr.
Paul Carter, a researcher at the ACALM Study Unit, said in a press
release.
"Our findings suggest that marriage is one way that patients can
receive support to successfully control their risk factors for heart
disease, and ultimately survive with them. The nature of a relationship
is important and there is a lot of evidence that stress and stressful
life events, such as divorce, are linked to heart disease. With this in
mind, we also found that divorced patients with high blood pressure or a
previous heart attack had lower survival rates than married patients
with the same condition."
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