Man, men need to take good care of themselves!

A new study has found men actually suffer more than women do when experiencing a break up with their significant other.

The study of 1,611 unmarried adults aged 18 to 23 found that a breakup or stressful relationship was more likely to affect young men negatively than young women.

The study also found young women who were more emotionally affected wanted to be in a relationship more than their romantic partners did, but young men were more interested in the quality of the relationship, Robin Simon, co-author, at Wake Forest University was cited by WebMd as saying.

The study was conducted by researchers at Wake Forest University and Florida State University and published in the June, 2010 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

The problem, as the researchers see it, is that young men were too narrow-focused; they viewed their partners as the primary (and sometimes only) source of intimacy.  Young women, on the other hand, may also enjoy being with their friends, families and other social relationships in addition to being with their sexual partners.

It is only natural that men are weaker than women in many areas; the fact that men have a shorter lifespan than women indicates that, in a sense, women are more durable than men.

Hardship in a romantic relationship can not only cause more stress on men emotionally, mentally, and psychologically, but also physically and physiologically.

One study published in the June 2009 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine showed that divorce raised blood pressure in men to a higher degree than in women.

The study, led by Sbarra D.A. and colleagues from the University of Arizona, tested blood pressure in 44 women and 26 men who were recently separated or divorced to see how their blood pressure responded to the difficult events.

Men increased their blood pressure significantly in midst of emotional trauma while women did not show any change, the researchers found.

Another study, led by Svensson J and Theorell T. and published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research (1983), suggests that even when a divorce occurs in a family, young men may experience an elevation in blood pressure.

In 1973, Noel S. Weiss from the National Center for Health Statistics reported in the British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine that widowed and divorced men were at a much higher risk of death from coronary heart disease than their counterparts - widowed and divorced women - in most age groups.

By Jimmy Downs and editing by Rachel Stockton