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cakeweefs t1_j9ja02z wrote

>The researchers used data from 7,694 participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) who were aged 45-50 in 1996, with their health and wellbeing tracked via questionanaires roughly every three years up to 2016.

>They were regularly asked to indicate their level of satisfaction in their relationships including with partners, family, friends and colleagues.

>The participants were also monitored for the 11 conditions identified as National Priority Areas in Australia: diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, osteoporosis, arthritis, cancer, depression and anxiety.

>Fifty-eight per cent of the women who had no chronic conditions when the study started, went on to develop multiple chronic conditions over the 20-year period.

I would be very interested in further research on the correlation between social isolation and chronic health conditions. It seems like a chicken and egg dilemma presently.

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Lotsofpeanutbutter2 t1_j9jp5au wrote

Yes. It seems like that association likely works in both directions: women with chronic illness are also likely unable to dedicate much energy to relationships.

Unfortunately, perhaps a self reinforcing cycle.

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D-Juice t1_j9l09m0 wrote

Or women, specifically, are more likely to be abandoned by their partners when they get sick: Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness

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ferrdek t1_j9lg4i1 wrote

it says that divorce rate in the group of seriously ill doesn't differ from divorce rate in general population.

Also, it doesn't says explicitly it's a man who files for divorce. It's an assumption that in all cases sick spouse is abandoned by the healthy spouse

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bateka2 t1_j9jpygl wrote

Agreed; I was thinking chicken or egg.

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