A new study has shown that divorces can actually hurt a women's health. However, the study has shown that it only affects middle aged women, not men, and only women of that age group. Health concerns that have been linked to marital trouble include high blood pressure, excess belly fat, and other health risks that promote a woman's risk for heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.
In this study, a professor from the University of Utah professor took 276 couples and tried to discover whether the main cause for these health problems was depression directly caused by marital troubles. The research showed that middle age women are more likely to become depressed than other women. The only health effects that were found in the men of the couples were the depressive emotional conditions, which hadn't affected their physical health.
The study also did not prove that getting a divorce would allow a woman to escape the health risks of marital trouble, for divorces often cause further depressive symptoms.
This article discusses the symptoms of depression, which plagues over 14 million Americans today. The symptoms of high blood pressure, anxiety, and other moods were common results of the study done about marriages.
So what does this mean? Further studies will continue to research married couples and how marital trouble affects the mind and body. The question is: how can we make these studies more accurate and more applicable to our modern day society? Will we in the future have to take more aspects of marriage into consideration, or possibly incorporate same sex marriages?
And will this affect divorce rates in our modern day society? Science, once again, is coming closer and closer to controlling even the romance in our lives!
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3 comments:
This is a really interesting post. Women generally tend to be more emotional than men, so
I wasn't really surprised when the article stated that women tend to be more icky-poo than men. But overall, I found this really cool to read and didn't realize that women can be so depressed from a divorce.
I actually think it's weird that men don't seem to get as emotionally affected as women do from divorces. I guess it makes sense that there are more depressed women because they are typically more emotional, but I figure that a lot of men would get depressed too.
I found it strange that only a certain age group of women were affected, and I do want to know why(i understand that you might not necessarily know).
And commenting on other comments, studies have shown that men are just as emotional as women, they just don't show it (it's a cultural thing)
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