Being married will raise your blood pressure - but not for the reason you think: study

"We were surprised to find that among many older couples, both husband and wife had high blood pressure," study author Dr. Chihua Li, who's a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, said in a press release. "For instance, in the US, among more than 35% of couples who were ages 50 or older, both had high blood pressure."

This was the first study to look into "the union of high blood pressure within couples from both high- and middle-income countries," according to co-lead author Dr. Jithin Sam Varghese of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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