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JeffreyDawmer t1_jdrp1gg wrote

Reply to comment by Objective-Mechanic89 in Research found after six years spent tracking health outcomes among nearly 925,000 Danish seniors, investigators determined that when a man between the ages of 65 and 69 loses his wife he is 70% more likely to die in the year that follows, when compared with his non-widowed peers by Wagamaga

What? I'm wondering if the grief of losing a loved one is all that's at play here, or if it's the loss of social contact and what the effect of each could be. No need to get snarky because you didn't understand the question, it just makes you look bad.

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Objective-Mechanic89 t1_jdrxicj wrote

The data set is about people dying after their SPOUSE. Single people don't die after their spouse because they didn't have one. I didn't understand the question because it doesn't make much sense.

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