Heart Health
Divorce linked to higher risk of heart attack
Divorce—especially for women—appears to boost the odds of having a heart attack, a new study finds.
Those who remarried were still 35% more likely to suffer a heart attack than those who had not split from their spouses. For men, heart attack risk rose by 30%, but only among those who divorced at least twice. And if they remarried, that heightened risk disappeared.
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