Women with satisfying relationships tend to have fewer chronic illnesses: University of Queensland research has found women who have quality relationships in their 40s and 50s are less likely to develop multiple chronic conditions in older age. Lead author Dr Xiaolin Xu, from the UQ School of Public Health, found that having unsatisfying social relationships can be as much of a risk factor for disease as obesity, physical inactivity or alcohol intake. “There is a known link between poor social relationships and poor health, but until now the research had focused on individual diseases or factors like a person’s marital
Women with satisfying relationships tend to have fewer chronic illnesses as seen on The Hippocratic Post.