SynthesisJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2017
Spousal concordance for hypertension: A meta-analysis of observational studies.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Spousal diabetes status as a risk factor for incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis.Acta diabetologica · 2019Pooled it
- Spousal concordance for hypertension: A meta-analysis of observational studies.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2017Pooled it
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- The association of hypertension among married Indian couples: a nationally representative cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Relationship between health checkups and cancer screenings of wives and health checkups of their husbands: A cross-sectional study in Japan.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Spousal Concordance of Hypertension Among Middle-Aged and Older Heterosexual Couples Around the World: Evidence From Studies of Aging in the United States, England, China, and India.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- What causes concordance of hypertension between spouses in India? Identifying a critical knowledge gap from a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of 63,020 couples aged 15 + years.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The prevalence of hypertension and hypertension control among married Namibian couples.PloS one · 2023Article
- Spousal Similarities in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Northern China: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Spousal Concordance of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Newly Married Couples in China.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Spousal Concordance in the Development of Functional Limitations Among Married Adults in China.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Predictive value of women's weight trajectories in determining familial cardiovascular disorders: a family-based longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Gender Specificity of Spousal Concordance in the Development of Chronic Disease among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Couples: A Prospective Dyadic Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Employment transitions for spouses of stroke survivors: evidence from Swedish national registries.BMC public health · 2020Article
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- Spousal metabolic risk factors and incident hypertension: A longitudinal cohort study in Iran.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Why spouses depress each other: A cross-national study to test the shared resource hypothesis in depressive symptom concordance within older adult couples.Asian social work and policy review · 2019Article
- Sex differences in the association between spousal metabolic risk factors with incidence of type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal study of the Iranian population.Biology of sex differences · 2019Article
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Abstract
The authors performed a meta-analysis of observational studies to estimate the magnitude of spousal concordance for hypertension and to examine whether the concordance varied by important study methodological aspects. PubMed and Embase were searched up to June 2017 for cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies that investigated the concordance/association of hypertension between spouse pairs. A meta-analysis with random-effects models was performed by pooling adjusted odds ratios. Eight studies with a total number of 81 928 spouse pairs were eligible. The pooled results showed that spouses of individuals with hypertension had 41% (odds ratio, 1.41; 95% confidence interval, 1.21-1.64) increased odds of having hypertension themselves. The association applied to both men and women, and was not significantly different between studies with adjustment for body mass index and those without. The findings highlighted the importance of environmental factors in the development of hypertension.
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