COLUMBUS, Ohio: Anxious feeling for your close relations destroy your immune system because it raises the level of stress hormones in your body which makes you fall ill, a recent research has revealed.
Researchers from the Ohio State University, one of the largest universities in United States (US) had conducted tests to observe the health effect of stress for close relationships on at least 85 couples who had married for an average of more than 12 years.
The researchers concluded that the stressed couples were producing almost 11 percent more stress hormones cortisol as well as they had very few amount of T-cells which help the body’s immune system against various infections.
Previously, stress is already known to negatively affect human health but the recent study aimed to look particularly at relationship anxiety.
Dr. Lisa Jaremka, lead author of the study said, ‘Everyone has these types of concerns now and again in their relationships, but a high level of attachment anxiety refers to people who have these worries fairly constantly in most of their relationships.’
The lead author noted that people who feel anxious could be change over time, though some scientists believe that the attachment anxiety can be traced back to childhood.
The study was published in the journal Psychological Science.
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