Your lovelife may be tied more closely to your health than you think

Date: 2007-02-15

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On this Valentine's Day, a new sign that love, and being in love, is good for your health.

Researchers in Italy - where else! - discovered that women who felt insecure in their close relationships had weakened immune systems.

Lab tests showed that their disease-fighting cells were less powerful than those of women who were in more stable love relationships.

Whether this makes a person more vulnerable to disease isn't known - yet.

However, doctors now want to find out what ailments might be linked to this weakened immunity.

The findings are published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

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