Men Gain More Health Benefits from Marriage than Women

According to recent studies by London-based academics, men stand to gain more health benefits from marriage than women.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the London School of Economics and the University College London found that the institution of marriage benefited men's health more than that of women. They also found that unmarried men had greater health concerns and issues than single women.

Dr. George Ploubidis, from the UCL Institute of Education, said:

"Being married appears to be more beneficial for men.

"Previous research has also shown that men experience an initial decline after divorce, but we found that in the long term they tend to revert to their pre-divorce health status.

"Surprisingly, those men who divorced in their late 30s and did not subsequently remarry were less likely to suffer from conditions related to diabetes in early middle-age compared with those who were married."

This latest study stands quite contrary to previous findings, which claimed married men and women fared better with their health than their single counterparts.

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