20/02/2025
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2977944/.
The findings from this study suggest that living a large portion of your adult life as a separated or divorced adult confers considerable risk for all-cause mortality. Notably, the risk of early death associated with remaining separated/divorced was greater than the long-term risk conferred by regular cigarette smoking in 1960. In contrast, the mere experience of a marital breakup produced no elevation in mortality risk.
Forty years of follow-up data from the Charleston Heart Study (CHS) were used to examine the risk for early mortality associated with marital separation or divorce in a sample of over 1,300 adults assessed on several occasions between 1960 and 2000. ...