You really can be nagged to death! 'Excessive demands' from partners can double risk of dying during middle age
- Having a nagging partner can significantly shorten your life
- Stress of constant moaning can weaken the body's immune system
- Men particularly at risk because they don't tell friends about problems
- People nagged by partners more likely to get heart disease and cancer
It's a warning for any man who feels he is being constantly nagged - by his wife, the children or even the neighbours.
Researchers
have found that ‘excessive demands’ from partners, family or those
living nearby can more than double the risk of death in middle-age.
They
say the stress caused by arguments or general worry can lead to heart
disease and also lower the immune system leading to other health
problems.
Research shows a nagging partner can double the risk of dying in middle age
And
the effects appear to be far greater in men because unlike women they
don’t share their problems with close friends or family.
Danish
researchers who carried out the study say many men only confide in
their wife or girlfriend - the very person who may be giving them grief.
Dr Rikke Lund and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen followed 9875 Danish men and women aged 36 to 52 for 11 years.
All
had filled in detailed questionnaires to establish how often they faced
demands or had conflicts with partners, family, friends or neighbours.
Questions
included ‘In your everyday life, do you experience conflicts with any
of the following people?’ and ‘do you experience that any of the
following people demand too much of you?’
Over the
11 year period 196 of the adults died - causes ranged from heart
disease, cancer, liver disease from alcohol abuse and suicide.
Men
who said they faced ‘many’ demands from their partner or family and
friends were more than twice as likely to die compared to women in the
same category who were 34 per cent more likely to die.
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