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Married people are THREE times more likely to survive middle age
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11:15 EST, 11 January 2013 | (Daily Mail Reporter)

Posted on 01/12/2013 5:34:09 PM PST by Olog-hai

Being married could be the key to a longer life—by improving your chances of surviving middle age, claim scientists.

People who never married were almost three times as likely to die early than those who had been in a stable marriage throughout their adult life, US researchers found.

The new research suggests for the first time that not having a spouse in midlife increases the risk of dying during those years.

Being single after 40, or losing a partner without marrying again, increased the risk of early death during middle age and cut the chances of getting to 60.

Even when personality and risky behaviors such as smoking and drinking were accounted for, married people were still 2.3 times more likely to survive. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 01/12/2013 5:34:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

well, duh. wives never let you do fun stuff, and fun stuff is either dangerous or unhealthy.


2 posted on 01/12/2013 5:40:26 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: sjeann

Another one for you know who to read!


4 posted on 01/12/2013 5:46:26 PM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: Olog-hai
What are your odds when you are a homosexual man in a sham marriage?


5 posted on 01/12/2013 5:56:00 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Olog-hai
Married people are THREE times more likely to survive middle age

People who never married were almost three times as likely to die early than those who had been in a stable marriage throughout their adult life, US researchers found.

Not equivalent statements. If 1% of the married people die, but 3% of the unmarried die, then the unmarried are 3 times as likely to die. On the other hand for married people to be three times more likely to survive, then at least two-thirds of the unmarried would have to die so you have a 33% unmarried survival rate and a 99% married survival rate. Any higher and you would need a greater than 100% survival rate of the married people.

6 posted on 01/12/2013 5:58:19 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: Olog-hai

My Brother died at age 66 almost exactly a year after his wife passed.


7 posted on 01/12/2013 5:59:51 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Olog-hai

I guess I am going to die. Oh well....


8 posted on 01/12/2013 6:04:56 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: eyedigress

Why do married men die before their wives?????

BECAUSE THEY WANT TO!!!!!


9 posted on 01/12/2013 6:05:56 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: KarlInOhio

Good analysis — an important distinction. Are there no numerate journalists?


10 posted on 01/12/2013 6:06:42 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Olog-hai
It just seems like you live longer.

/johnny

11 posted on 01/12/2013 6:07:20 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Olog-hai

what about surviving middle age in an unstable marriage?


12 posted on 01/12/2013 6:15:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: shelterguy

you know why. ;)


13 posted on 01/12/2013 6:16:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Yeah, the hookers and blow usually comes to end at marriage ;-)


14 posted on 01/12/2013 6:25:41 PM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: Olog-hai

My ex wife will live to be one day older than me. She was put on earth for one resaon only; To torment me. If I’d have shot her when I first wanted to I’d have been out by now. BTW, I’m 61 and have been divorced from the bitch over 20 years. The definition of a wedding ring is a viscious circle.


15 posted on 01/12/2013 6:30:26 PM PST by umgud
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To: KarlInOhio

Um, excuse me, but could you please not bring reality into this?


16 posted on 01/12/2013 6:54:14 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Olog-hai

hey I was Married, once. I dated a Women a few years ago who tried to STAB me (still comes by to retrieve the knife, Cops took her away with another knife).

NO I did not Read the Article.


17 posted on 01/12/2013 6:55:37 PM PST by corbe (mystified)
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To: Olog-hai
I don't know if I like the implication that "middle age" ends at 60.

None of the recent popes has died before the age of 60 (John Paul I was 65), and none of them were married.

18 posted on 01/12/2013 6:58:44 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: miliantnutcase

. . . and by then, we’re willing to die anyway ;)


19 posted on 01/12/2013 7:06:59 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Olog-hai

I read another study that said married people live longer. But it turns out they decided it just seems that way.


20 posted on 01/12/2013 7:14:12 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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