Married people are THREE times more likely to survive middle age.

• Being single after 40, or losing a partner without marrying again, increased the risk of early death during middle age and cut the chances of getting to 60.
• Being married could be the key to a longer life - by improving your chances of surviving middle age, claim scientists.
• People who never married were almost three times as likely to die early than those who had been in a stable marriage throughout their adult life US researchers found.
• The new research suggests for the first time that not having a spouse in midlife increases the risk of dying during those years.
• Even when personality and risky behaviours such as smoking and drinking were accounted for, married people were still 2.3 times more likely to survive.
• The new study was carried out by Dr Ilene Siegler and colleagues from the department of behavioural sciences at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina.

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