Divorce after a marriage in a family is always stressful for partners and their family, creating a lot of social problems. A study reveals that lower life satisfaction among divorced people can lead to lower physical activity and increased smoking – two factors associated with early death, new research reveals. Divorced participants were more likely to smoke than married participants and, as a result, had poorer lung function, which predicted early mortality, the study found. “We were trying to fill in the gap of evidence linking marital status and early mortality,” said lead author in the US.
The findings are based on data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging , a long-term health study of adults over age 50 living in Great Britain. The study includes seven waves of data, collected from participants every two years beginning in 2002. The study, published in the journal Annals of…
