Want lower blood pressure? Fall in love, get married

21 03 2008

Happily married people tend to have lower blood pressure than singles, a new study out by Brigham Young University says.

But the reverse is also true. Unhappily married people had the highest blood pressure than anyone in the study. And considering the high rate of divorce today — which various sources say hovers between 40 percent and 50 percent of marriages — it seems like there are quite a bit of unhappily married people.

I’m glad someone funded an entire scientific study, only to prove that happiness has positive health ramifications. It seems like a no brainer to me. Next, let’s fund a study that shows a correlation between having sex and pregnancies. My guess is, they might be related.


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