We found that dispositional optimism was also significantly related to a lower risk of cardiovascular death in women.

Optimism is strongly associated with physical health, even to strong clinical endpoints like cardiovascular death.

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years. Stress and lack of social support may also adversely affect immunologic measures, so spousal hospitalization may have physiological effects on partners.

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years.

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

We didn't know if we'd see the benefits in a trial of women at high risk. And in fact, it does hold out.