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REBECCA DUBE

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 2:13 AM EDT 28/03/08

Marriage can be good for your blood pressure, new study suggests - but only if it's a happy union ...Read the full article

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  1. Julius Streicher from Canada writes: My Wife and I were happy for over twenty years...then we met.
  2. Alex M from Canada writes: People say this all the time here, but studies tell us things we already know via. common sense are just not that interesting.
  3. Eric the Red from Uzbekistan writes: ""It's the quality of the marriage, not being married per se," said lead researcher Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University."

    Captain obvious to the rescue. Thanks Julianne!
  4. Mr. Coffee from Victoria, Canada writes: News Flash: Happy marriages are good for the blood pressure? Duuuuuuugh!!!

    I guess I never saw that one coming.

    They better go tell Oprah and liberate all of us unenlightened couples before it's too late.
  5. Steve Not an Alberta Redneck from Calgary, Canada writes: Who are these people? With the expectations of the generation older than me, perhaps this exists with some frequency, but mine had the highest rate of divorce and even among those still together, its difficult to see this "bliss". I recognized this early and stayed single. My reason was: I didn't want to make a woman unhappy - just too expensive to deal with!
  6. Patrick Poyner-Del Vento from Vancouver, Canada writes: Before we dismiss this as common sense, we should take a moment to consider why these findings are not as accurate as they seem. For example, who exactly are these "single" people? Are they single, never-married people, or are they all the single, separated, divorced, and widowed people who are more accurately described as "not married"? My guess is, if we only compared single, never-married people to happily married people, there will be very little difference in health outcome because the separated/divorced/widowed crowd may be dragging the results down for the entire "singles" group.
  7. RD Lone from Vancouver, Canada writes: To make this article more interesting they should have implied mortality rate based on blood pressure related problems.

    Then compare married to divorced.
  8. Ursula Seawitch from Canada writes: I wonder why they didn't include whether or not the long married couples had children and how many.

    I think your blood pressure goes up with each child that goes through the teen years.
  9. Mr. Sarcasm from Canada writes: .
    "...I recognized this early and stayed single. My reason was: I didn't want to make a woman unhappy - just too expensive to deal with!"

    Quite a mindset.
  10. Patrick Poyner-Del Vento from Vancouver, Canada writes: I was just in contact with Dr. Holt-Lunstad, and she said that even when they exclude the divorced/separated/widowed people, the results still show differences between single and married people. Now THAT I find interesting!
  11. Another Opinion from Toronto, Canada writes: This just in: Happy people are happier than unhappy people.

    In other news, water is wet.
  12. Claire Theaker-Brown from Edmonton, Canada writes: Great. As if society didn't load enough pressure on singles to just pair up already, now we have science telling us we'll die sooner if we don't tie the knot. I am so tired of of the assumption that I am socially inferior for being on my own; do we really need scientific studies to confirm whether or not my independence is a health hazard?
  13. Kan Tankerous from Tronna, Canada writes: I was gonna comment on this story, but Another Opinion stole my thunder...lol...brilliant post!
  14. Eris Korenyx from Canada writes: Yet another 'study' for the Duh! file.
  15. Richard Hawrelak from Sarnia, Canada writes: The report states: "Happily married people scored an average of four points lower on blood-pressure tests than single people, even those singles who enjoy a rich social network."

    Common, I'm on a Diovan monitor and measure my BP every day. Eat a Pitzza, 50. Need to go to the bathroom in the middle od a reading ... 50. Yell at the dog to stay out of the living room ... 50.

    No way can anyone measure BP by /- 4 points. PERIOD. Been there, doing that. I'm happily married since 31 Oct 1952. There are many aggivating circumstances, like trying to find my spectacles, that are way more important than marriage problems.
  16. Richard Hawrelak from Sarnia, Canada writes: Why can't this stupid G&M program recognize Plus and Minus symbols? After all, this is 2008, isn't it?
  17. Joseph T from Victoria, Canada writes: My blood pressure is always up for my girlfriend, not the wife. I don't know why.

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