For better and worse? The roles of closeness, marital behavior, and age in spouses' cardiometabolic similarity.

ABSTRACT: Spouses share common risks for cardiometabolic diseases: a person's diabetes or hypertension raises the partner's odds of developing the same condition. The mechanisms responsible for this disease concordance remain poorly understood. To examine three factors that may modulate partners' cardiometabolic similarity-closeness, hostile marital behavior, and age-and to explore whether health behavior concordance plays a role, on two separate occasions 43 healthy couples ages 24-61 provided fasting glucose, metabolic data (fat and carbohydrate oxidation), and resting blood pressure before discussing one of their most severe marital disagreements. Accounting for the fixed effects of sex, age, study visit, and abdominal fat on cardiometabolic levels, we found that aspects of health behavior concor

SUBMITTER: Wilson SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7849824 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature