The couple that drinks together might live longer together, too, says a University of Michigan researcher.
, Kira Birditt, research professor at the U-M Institute for Social Resarch's Survey Research Center, found that couples who are concordant in their drinking behavior tend to live longer.
"The purpose of this study was to look at alcohol use in couples in the Health and Retirement Study and the implications for mortality," she said."And we found, interestingly, that couples in which both indicated drinking alcohol in the last three months lived longer than the other couples that either both indicated not drinking or had discordant drinking patterns in which one drank and the other did not.
"We've also found in other studies that couples who drink together tend to have better relationship quality, and it might be because it increases intimacy," Birditt said. "There is also little information about the daily interpersonal processes that account for these links. Future research should assess the implications of couple drinking patterns for daily marital quality, and daily physical health outcomes."
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