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Q: By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS 
  
 Marital bliss is good for your health. 
  
 That’s the conclusion of a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association that showed people in a stable marriage and never divorced or widowed had the best prospects of surviving after a stroke. 
  
 “Our research is the first to show that current and past marital experiences can have significant consequences for one’s prognosis after a stroke,” said Matthew E. Dupre, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine and the Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. 
  
 “We hope that a greater recognition and understanding of these associations may enable healthcare providers to better identify and treat patients who may be at a potentially high risk of dying after suffering a stroke.” 
  
 While studies have shown that social support, such as marriage, can have a significant impact on treatment of cardiovascular disease, the influence of marital status on stroke survival in adults remains poorly understood. 
  
 After studying 2,351 adults 41 years and older in the Health and Retirement Study who reported a stroke between 1992 and 2010, researchers found: 
  
 The risk of dying after a stroke was 71 percent greater for adults who never married than for adults who were continuously married. 
  
 People divorced or widowed had a 23 percent and 25 percent greater risk of dying after stroke, respectively. 
  
 Those who were divorced or widowed more than once had a 39 percent and 40 percent greater risk of dying after stroke, respectively. 
  
 There was no significance difference between men and women or by race or ethnicity. 
  
 Some of the risks are affected by differences in psychological and social factors, such as lack of children, limited social support and depressive symptoms, that may have impeded recovery after a stroke, researchers said. 
  
 Multiple marital losses in one’s lifetime were especially detrimental to recovery, regardless of current marital status. Researchers also found that remarriage didn’t reduce the risks from past divorce or widowhood. 
  
 “More research is needed to know the full clinical implications of our findings,” Dupre said. “Greater knowledge about the risks associated with marital life and marital loss may be useful for personalizing care and improving outcomes for those who are recovering from a stroke.” 
  
 Stroke, the No. 5 killer and one of the leading causes of disability in the United States, affects nearly 800,000 adults each year. ||||| Micrograph showing cortical pseudolaminar necrosis, a finding seen in strokes on medical imaging and at autopsy. H&E-LFB; stain. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia People who were in a stable marriage, and had never been divorced or widowed, had the best prospects of survival after having a stroke, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  
 "Our research is the first to show that current and past marital experiences can have significant consequences for one's prognosis after a stroke," said Matthew E. Dupre, Ph.D., lead author and associate professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine and the Clinical Research Institute at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "We hope that a greater recognition and understanding of these associations may enable healthcare providers to better identify and treat patients who may be at a potentially high risk of dying after suffering a stroke." 
  
 Stroke, one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States, affects nearly 800,000 adults each year. The risk factors associated with stroke—high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes—are well established, as are the factors related to recovering from stroke and improving survival, such as access to quality healthcare, reducing risk factors, and adhering to treatment plans. While studies have shown that social support, such as marriage, can have a significant impact on treatment of cardiovascular disease, the influence of marital status on stroke survival in adults remains poorly understood. 
  
 To determine whether one's marital history plays a role in survival after suffering a stroke, Dupre and Renato D. Lopes, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, used data from a nationally representative sample of older U.S. adults. The sample was collected as part of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), an ongoing, prospective, study of older U.S. adults sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The HRS includes marital histories from more than 50 years of prospective and retrospective interview data. 
  
 For this study, the researchers selected respondents who reported a stroke from 1992 to 2010. The final sample included 2,351 adults aged 41 and older who were observed an average of 5.3 years over the 18-year study period. The researchers found: 
  
 The risks of dying after a stroke were 71 percent greater for adults who never married than for adults who were continuously married. 
  
 For patients who were divorced or widowed, the risks of dying after a stroke were 23 percent and 25 percent greater, respectively, than continuously married adults. 
  
 In patients who were divorced or widowed more than once, the risks of dying after a stroke were 39 percent and 40 percent greater, respectively, than for continuously married adults. 
  
 There was no evidence that the findings significantly differed between men and women or by race or ethnicity. 
  
 Analysis of the data suggests that some of these risks are affected by differences in psychological and social factors, such as lack of children, limited social support and depressive symptoms that may have impeded recovery after a stroke. Multiple marital losses in one's lifetime were especially detrimental to recovery, regardless of one's current marital status. Unexpectedly, the researchers found that remarriage did not reduce the risks from past divorce or widowhood. A limitation of the study is that it only included adults who survived to hospital discharge and did not include those who died shortly after having a stroke. 
  
 The results of this study have possible implications for public health awareness and practice, Dupre said. "More research is needed to know the full clinical implications of our findings. Greater knowledge about the risks associated with marital life and marital loss may be useful for personalizing care and improving outcomes for those who are recovering from a stroke." 
  
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A: 
A leading cause of death and disability in the US, strokes affect nearly 800,000 adults every year. Now researchers are showing for the first time that current and past marital status can play a big role in survival rates following a stroke, reports MedicalXpress. After tracking the outcomes of more than 2,300 stroke survivors for five years, researchers report in the Journal of the American Heart Association that 1,362 people died in that period, and that people who'd never married were 71% more likely to have died than stroke patients in lengthy, "continuous" marriages. People who had divorced or been widowed were also at a higher risk of dying after stroke. While the study doesn't explain exactly why, reports the American Heart Association, the researchers hypothesize that married couples have better social support, not to mention someone helping the survivor follow medication regimens and practice healthier habits. "What we don't know is whether other forms of social support might have similar benefits," one expert tells US News & World Report. He adds that, because depression is common following stroke, it "needs to be recognized and treated," which may be less likely in unmarried stroke survivors. Another expert says that while unmarried stroke survivors should seek help, many don't, so "be the 'nudge' who makes sure they're taking care of themselves." (A Playboy model died of a stroke at age 34.)