This is known after the research team conducted interviews while analyzing blood samples from 99 participants. All of these participants have a partner who has just died.
The research team also noticed several signs of deep sadness in the participants. These signs or symptoms include a great yearning for the late couple who make the physical or mental abilities of participants experience a decline, difficulty in continuing life, the emergence of the feeling that life is meaningless until it is difficult to accept that their partner is gone.
After doing comparisons and analysis, the research team found that widows and widowers who showed symptoms of deep sadness had a body inflammation level of up to 17 percent higher. One third of the participants who were at the top also had an inflammatory level of 53.4 percent higher than a third of participants in the lowest order due to the level of sadness they experienced.
"This is the first study that confirms that sadness, regardless of the level of depression experienced, can lead to inflammation, which can then cause negative health effects," Chief Researcher Chris Fagundes explained.
The research team also found that widows and widowers who were in mourning had some higher risk of health problems than the control group. Some of these risks are cardiovascular problems, symptoms in the body and premature death.
"This finding shows who, among the mourners, is at high risk," explained Fagundes.
Fagundes said the new findings could be a reference for professionals to design intervention efforts for mourners who are at high risk. This intervention effort can be done through behavioral and pharmacological approaches.
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