guardian:
New data may explain the phenomenon of people dying soon after their life partner
“(T)he risk of developing an irregular heartbeat for the first time was 41 percent higher among those who had been bereaved than it was among those who had not experienced such a loss,” according to a study led by Simon Graff of Aarhus University in Denmark.
Younger people were more than twice as likely to develop problems — and those whose partners were relatively healthy in the month before death, thus not expected to die, were 57 percent more at risk.
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