Is alcohol useless? “Couples who drink together live longer.”

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2024-04-18 14:56:58

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Alcohol is considered the main culprit in harming health. In terms of physical health, there is also an assessment that it is ‘white sea and useless’. However, research is attracting attention with the results of a study showing that if a couple whose relationship is at stake drinks together, their relationship can be prolonged and even their lifespan can be increased.

They found that couples who have similar drinking habits and drink together are more likely to live longer and have healthier relationships than couples who don’t drink together.

Kira Burdit, a professor at the University of Michigan in the US, said she had found that couples with similar drinking habits (the so-called ‘drinking partnership’) had less marital conflict and had longer-lasting relationships. But the researchers said why He also acknowledged the limitations of the study, saying he was not sure whether drinking alcohol was “related to better survival.”

Professor Burdit, the lead author of this study published in the February issue of the medical journal The Gerontologist, said that the purpose of this study was to investigate how couples’ drinking affects mortality in a recent health and retirement study conducted by the University of Michigan. That was the goal, a university press release said.

Professor Burdit interviewed 4,566 heterosexual couples over the age of 50 every two years. The key question was not to ask them what type of alcohol they drank or how much they drank, but whether they ‘drank with a partner in the past three months’.

Is alcohol useless?  “Couples who drink together live longer.”

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Professor Burdit said: “Interestingly, we found that couples who indicated that they had both drank alcohol in the past three months were more likely to show discordant drinking patterns, such as neither drinking alcohol or one drinking and the other not drinking. “I discovered that I lived a long time,” he said.

He cautioned that the results of this study should not be read as a recommendation for people to drink more alcohol. He added that sometimes what’s good for a relationship isn’t necessarily good for your health, and it’s important for couples to remember that they influence each other’s physical health. But more research is needed to clearly understand how it affects them, he said.

Professor Burdit reiterated that we do not know at this stage why two partners drinking together is associated with better survival, adding that future research will explore the impact of a couple’s drinking habits on everyday marital quality and everyday physical health outcomes. He added that it needs to be evaluated.

Professor Burdit’s current study is a more detailed look at the previous study conducted in 2016. At the time, she conducted a survey of 3,000 couples who had been married for 33 years. As a result, it was concluded that couples who drink together are happier than couples where only the husband or wife drinks.

Park Hae-sik, Donga.com reporter [email protected]

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