Marriage and Health

Source: IndiaTimes, Reuters
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What part of a woman's body is reported to benefit from marriage?

What is metabolic syndrome?

Happy marriage may do a woman's heart good

Wedded bliss may provide women some protection against heart disease and stroke, new study findings suggest.

The study, which followed 413 middle-aged women over a dozen years, found that those who were happy in their marriages were less likely than their dissatisfied peers to develop metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of disorders -- high blood pressure, excess abdominal fat, abnormal cholesterol levels and elevated blood sugar -- that raises the risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

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