According to a new study, divorce in mid-life affects cardiovascular health of women as compared to men. Possible causes include financial lacking, emotional distress due to divorce.

Married people suffer with less mental problems like depression and anxiety as compared to unmarried individuals.

Divorced, widow and re-married women have more risks to suffer from health diseases in contrast to women with continual marriage.

As per the figures, 31 percent of re-married women, 33 percent of divorced women and 30 percent of widows to be affected with heart diseases by the age of 60, than to 22 percent women with continuous marriage.

Divorce does not affect men, but re-married men found to be 19 percent less affected with heart diseases as compared to men with continual marriage having financially sound.

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