A study of over 4,000 middle-aged men interviewed in the early 1990s and again a decade later found that breaking off an important life partnership, such as divorce or breaking off a relationship with parents, increased the risk of developing asthma by 124% (Loerbroks, Apfelbacher, Thayer, Debling, & Stürmer, 2009).

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