Tucker and Her Colleagues Studied the Relationship Between Marital Status

Tucker and her colleagues studied the relationship between marital status at midlife and longevity in a sample of men and women in the Terman Life-Cycle longitudinal study initiated in 1921.They found that _______________.

A) those who had never married had a higher mortality risk than those who were married
B) those married to the same person at midlife years had a lower mortality risk than those married more than once
C) those who were separated or divorced at midlife had a higher mortality rate than those who were married
D) marital status at midlife had no relationship to mortality risk