Marriage helps management of heart disease risk factors

People living with any of the three biggest risk factors for heart disease – high cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes – we’re found to have an increased chance of survival if they were married, researchers from the Aston School of Medicine have found. People with high cholesterol were 16% more likely to be alive at the end of the study if they were married, while the same was true for people living with diabetes (14%) and high blood pressure (10%), compared to singletons.  In the study, researcher looked at the survival of people who had the three main risk factors