A Danish study found that widowed men aged 65 to 69 had a 70 percent higher one-year mortality rate than unwidowed men of the same age.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Alexandros Katsiferis, a public health epidemiology researcher at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and his team spent 6 years tracking 925,000 elderly people in the country, and found that if men aged 65 to 69 encountered If his wife dies, his mortality rate within 1 year is 70% higher than that of men of the same age who are not widowed.

Compared with men, women aged 65 to 69 were only 27 percent more likely to die if their husband died, UPI reported.

Casiphilis admits that he has no information to explain why this situation occurs. He can only speculate that it is because elderly men are more dependent on their wives for care, so when the other half leaves, it will cause the old man to collapse physically and mentally.

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All participants in the study were over 65 years old, with an average age of 73 to 75, and about 55 percent were women.

During the 6-year follow-up period, about 6% of men lost their spouses and 10% of women lost their husbands. Experts mainly studied the medical expenses and death risks of the elderly after losing their spouse.

The statistical results found that women between the ages of 65 and 69 will increase their chances of death after their husbands pass away, but if women are widowed after the age of 70, the risk of death will not increase or even decrease.

Relatively speaking, as long as men aged 65 to 84 experience a wife's death, the probability of death will increase. Although the rate of increase will slow down with age, it is still higher than that of their unwidowed peers.