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Death and Dying: The Widower Effect

April 13, 2006 by admin

A new study by Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania reports that people who have lost a spouse within the last 30 days are significantly more likely to die. The study followed more than 518,000 couples older than 65. It found that:

The death of a wife in the previous 30 days increased a husband’s risk of death by 53 percent, and the death of a husband increased a wife’s risk of death by 61 percent. Additionally, the hospitalization of one partner elevated health risks for the other partner for nearly two years.

Source: Scientific American Mind, April/May 2006 (Subscription required)

Filed Under: Death & Dying, Health & Medicine Tagged With: death, dying, grief, science, widower

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