"One thing" that men and women can do may help stabilize blood sugar! Authoritative journal said: The protection effect for singles is limited
The divorce rate among modern people is generally high, and raising children is often a big burden, which makes young people shy away when they hear the word “marriage”. However, in fact, no matter what the mode of getting along with each other and the quality of life after marriage, will it have certain benefits for health? A recent publication in the well-known authoritative journal “British Medical Journal” (BMJ) shows that the act of getting married may help partners maintain lower blood sugar levels.
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The research was initiated by the University of Ottawa in Canada and the University of Luxembourg. The research team used biobank data from the “English Longitudinal Study on Aging (ELSA)” as a research sample, with a total of 3,335 subjects, most of whom were adults over 50 years old and their partners living in England, the United Kingdom.
From 2004 to 2013, the research team tracked the health status of the subjects every two years. After the second time (2004-05), the fourth time (2008-09) and the sixth time (2012-13) After the main interview in 2016, the team further invited the subjects for medical examination and collected serum samples to measure their “glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)” levels.
The results found that among adults who had not previously suffered from diabetes, being married was associated with lower glycated hemoglobin; compared with those who were currently single or not married, glycated hemoglobin values were approximately 21% lower on average. And regardless of the quality of the marital relationship or gender, entering marriage seems to be related to lower glycated hemoglobin values in subjects over 50 years old.
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“Taken together, the results indicate that regardless of the level of spousal harmony or conflict, marriage or cohabitation is negatively related to glycated hemoglobin levels. Marriage appears to have a certain effect on reducing glycated hemoglobin values and preventing the occurrence of ‘prediabetes’ and diabetes. Protective effect,” said study author Katherine J. Ford.
Ford also pointed out that increasing the amount of spiritual support provided to elders who have lost their marriage or cohabitation relationship due to divorce or bereavement, and eliminating negative stereotypes about romantic relationships in later life, may be ways to address their health risks. This approach may help control blood sugar levels. “Why does glycosylated hemoglobin show different values due to the influence of marital relationship? In fact, previous research has shown that the stress caused by loneliness may affect the body’s blood sugar regulation, which may be related to the occurrence of diabetes; and if diabetic patients face severe Stress can also easily increase blood sugar fluctuations.”
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Not only blood sugar control, marriage may also have certain benefits for major physical or psychological problems? Robert H. Shmerling, a Ph.D. from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University in the United States, said that current research indicates that married people do tend to be healthier than single people. For example, compared with singles, married people have a longer life expectancy, a lower risk of stroke and heart disease, a lower risk of depression, are less likely to develop advanced cancer, and have a higher survival rate after major surgery.
Shmerling points out that given the numerous studies linking marriage to better health, many scientists in the academic community are curious about the connection. Current hypotheses link the psychological problems caused by loneliness to changes in the immune system and individual behavioral patterns. As previous research has found, married people in happy relationships have stronger immune function than unhappy married people. In addition, married people tend to release lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol than single people, and high cortisol levels may impair immune function.
Shmerling also emphasized that personal life behaviors tend to improve with marriage. Some studies have found that married people have healthier eating habits than single people; there is also evidence that married people are more willing to take regular health check-ups and follow medical advice for relevant treatments. Some studies even suspect that people who have health problems themselves, or are prone to health problems due to unhealthy habits, are less willing to get married because they are unwilling to infect their partners or offspring with bad habits; conversely, studies have found that people with healthier bodies are less willing to get married. Intention to get married is also generally higher, which may explain the relationship between marriage and health benefits.
Finally, there are the mental health risks caused by loneliness. Poorer social support is strongly associated with higher rates of depression, loneliness and social isolation, especially for single people, which is at greater risk, leading to poorer health outcomes. However, Shmerling also explained that the above theory cannot directly prove or refute the health benefits of marriage, and it also underestimates the psychological state of single people after divorce, which may be worse than the state before marriage. Therefore, only reaching a consensus with your partner and allowing both parties to tolerate and compromise to the greatest extent possible is the key to a happy marriage.
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