Older couples, take note: Years of stress resulting from an unhappy marriage can put you at higher risk for heart disease.
"Marriage may promote (good) health, but it's not that every marriage is better than none," Hui Lui, a Michigan State University sociologist and lead author on a study published this week in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, said. "The quality of marriage is really important."
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