A study involving 8,652 people between the ages of 51 and 61 found that people who are divorced or widowed have 20% more chronic health conditions, like heart disease, diabetes, or cancer, than married people. In addition, those who remarried had 12% more chronic health conditions than those continuously married, suggesting that divorce has a lingering(長引く)detrimental(有害な)impact on health that may never be fully remedied. One shortcoming of the study is that it does not address the impact of marital quality.