Heart disease often the result of marital stress

Marriage is full of dedication, compromise, arguments, happiness and other things, but when marital stress becomes commonplace (for any reason), your heart can suffer along with your mind, according to new research.

How married couples respond to stress may affect how the heart is affected as well, suggesting some type of level correlation according to the research results.

Females have hostility to blame for possible heart issues when marital stress rears its ugly head, and men have a "controlling manner" scenario -- from themselves or their wives -- to blame for an increasing possibility of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).