Not the Heartbreak You Expected

Oct 09, 07:21 AM

Current Headlines: A lousy marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday.

What it likely boils down to is stress - a well-known contributor to health problems, as well as a potential byproduct of troubled relationships, the scientists said.

The study was in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

- Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press

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