Treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS: Unfinished business
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Researchers at the University of Oulu have identified significant differences in mortality among widows and widowers from cohabiting versus married relationships, depending on the deceased partner’s cause of death. Accidental death increases the surviving partner’s mortality risk more than death from illness. Mortality rises particularly sharply among those who had been living in cohabitation.