Living with in-laws increases risk of heart disease

By Carla Bevan  on Thursday 11 December 2008

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Women who live under the safe roof as their in-laws could be putting their long-term health at risk, a new study has discovered.

With Christmas just around the corner, and many couples facing a festive period at their partner's parents' home, scientists have warned that a prolonged period of time living in another person's house can increase a woman's chance of developing heart disease threefold.

Why? Well, the experts – who studied 91,000 Japanese men and women over 14 years – say the pressure of having to fulfil multiple roles increases stress, which in turn increases the chances of developing heart problems.

And it's not just the in-laws that cause problems, children do too, with women who live with their kids two times as likely to develop heart disease in comparison to those who live with just a husband or partner.

'Women in a multi-generational family had a higher risk of coronary heart disease, probably due to stress from multiple family roles,' researchers from Japan's Osaka University told the medical journal Heart.

Thursday 11 December 2008

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