Good Marriage Equals Good Blood Pressure

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, an assistant psychology professor at Brigham Young University conducted a study of 204 married people and 99 single adults. Most were white, and it's not clear whether the same results would apply to other ethnic groups. The end results, however, revealed that the more marital satisfaction and adjustment spouses reported, the lower their average blood pressure was. Conversely, couples who were not in good marriages had bad higher blood pressure than single people, who scored lower than the happy married couples. Other studies have shown that marriage is typically beneficial to a person's health, but this study points to the fact that being in a happy relationship is what really matters most.