Spousal Social Support Linked to Heart Disease
- 10 years ago
Next time your spouse asks for help, before you answer consider that your response could have an impact on their health.
Next time your spouse asks for help, before you answer consider that your response could have an impact on their health.
A study out of the University of Utah shows that how married couples support one another could impact their cardiovascular wellbeing.
Researchers discovered that those who characterized their partners as being sometimes helpful, sometimes upsetting tended to have higher amounts of coronary artery calcification.
The levels were highest when both partners expressed their marriages were marked by this mutual ambivalence rather than just one partner.
For the study 136 couples were questioned and underwent CT scans.
Participants were older couples who had been married, on average, around 36 years.
The questionnaires they filled out asked about the types of treatment they received when in need of advice, a favor, or support in general.
Only 30 percent of the respondents gave fully favorable reviews.
The spousal behaviors of the remaining 70 percent fell into the ambivalent category.
CT scans revealed that they were also the ones with the most at-risk hearts on a purely physical level.
The team plans to do further studies to shed light on the scientific and behavioral links behind the findings.
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Next time your spouse asks for help, before you answer consider that your response could have an impact on their health.
A study out of the University of Utah shows that how married couples support one another could impact their cardiovascular wellbeing.
Researchers discovered that those who characterized their partners as being sometimes helpful, sometimes upsetting tended to have higher amounts of coronary artery calcification.
The levels were highest when both partners expressed their marriages were marked by this mutual ambivalence rather than just one partner.
For the study 136 couples were questioned and underwent CT scans.
Participants were older couples who had been married, on average, around 36 years.
The questionnaires they filled out asked about the types of treatment they received when in need of advice, a favor, or support in general.
Only 30 percent of the respondents gave fully favorable reviews.
The spousal behaviors of the remaining 70 percent fell into the ambivalent category.
CT scans revealed that they were also the ones with the most at-risk hearts on a purely physical level.
The team plans to do further studies to shed light on the scientific and behavioral links behind the findings.
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