Polygamy Is Bad For Your Heart

Remember the old joke about the penalty for bigamy being two wives? It’s not that funny anymore, thanks to research conducted at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, suggesting that the more wives you have, the worse your heart health is likely to be. Science Daily reports on the study, which involved 687 married men (average age 59) Around two-thirds of the men had one wife (68%) while 19% had 2 wives, 10% had 3 wives and 3% had 4 wives. The researchers found, yes, risk of heart disease did increase with the number of wives. After adjusting for baseline differences, the researchers showed that men who practiced polygamy had a 4.6-fold increased risk of coronary artery disease, a 3.5-fold increased risk of left main artery disease and a 2.6-fold elevated risk of multivessel disease. Yes, they’re all bad.