When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years. Stress and lack of social support may also adversely affect immunologic measures, so spousal hospitalization may have physiological effects on partners. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes
When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years. Stress and lack of social support may also adversely affect immunologic measures, so spousal hospitalization may have physiological effects on partners. Nicholas Christakis
 

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We showed it's not just death that can give you a broken heart, but illness in your spouse can give you a broken heart and contribute to death. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

We showed it's not just death that can give you a broken heart, but illness in your spouse can give you a broken heart and contribute to death.

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 Death
Initially the partner is at increased risk from heart attack, suicide, and accidents. I am shocked my wife is sick and I stop paying attention when driving. And there is an increase in infections. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

Initially the partner is at increased risk from heart attack, suicide, and accidents. I am shocked my wife is sick and I stop paying attention when driving. And there is an increase in infections.

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 Accidents
Our work suggests that interventions might decrease the mortality of caregivers. Interventions are likely to be useful in certain diseases, such as stroke and dementia, and the timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

Our work suggests that interventions might decrease the mortality of caregivers. Interventions are likely to be useful in certain diseases, such as stroke and dementia, and the timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.

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 Mortality
It seems clear that a person's illness or death can have health consequences for others in his or her social network. This means that efforts to reduce disease, disability, and death can be self-reinforcing, since a decrease in the burden of these events in one person can have a cascading benefit for others. The training and assistance of caregivers can lower costs and also improve the health of patients and caregivers alike. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

It seems clear that a person's illness or death can have health consequences for others in his or her social network. This means that efforts to reduce disease, disability, and death can be self-reinforcing, since a decrease in the burden of these events in one person can have a cascading benefit for others. The training and assistance of caregivers can lower costs and also improve the health of patients and caregivers alike.

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You can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies but also when your partner falls ill. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

You can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies but also when your partner falls ill.

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 Heart
Over the first 30 days it can be almost as bad for you to have a sick spouse as a dead spouse. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

Over the first 30 days it can be almost as bad for you to have a sick spouse as a dead spouse.

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We showed you can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies, but when your partner falls ill. We showed it is not just death that can give you a broken heart, but illness -- even when the spouses don't die. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

We showed you can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies, but when your partner falls ill. We showed it is not just death that can give you a broken heart, but illness -- even when the spouses don't die.

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 Heart
If you are living at the margin, economically or in terms of age or being sicker, you are more vulnerable to your spouse being sick. If I am richer or younger, it is not as big a shock. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

If you are living at the margin, economically or in terms of age or being sicker, you are more vulnerable to your spouse being sick. If I am richer or younger, it is not as big a shock.

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Because people are interconnected, we think this phenomenon we studied in elderly married couples applies more generally. We are looking at broader connections -- between parent and child, brother and sister, neighbors, and friends. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

Because people are interconnected, we think this phenomenon we studied in elderly married couples applies more generally. We are looking at broader connections -- between parent and child, brother and sister, neighbors, and friends.

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These are a huge set of issues of fundamental social science interest that shed light on the workings of society. - Nicholas Christakis Quotes

These are a huge set of issues of fundamental social science interest that shed light on the workings of society.

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