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Married people recover better after cardiac surgery according to JAMA
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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Source Name: Time magazine
It turns out that marriage may actually mend broken hearts.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that married patients recovered better after heart surgery than single or divorced patients.
After studying 1,576 adults over age 50 who had serious cardiac surgery, the researchers found that unmarried patients had a 40% greater chance of dying or developing complications two years after the surgery.
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