Does marital status affect the risk of cardiovascular, cancer, and all-cause mortality differently in men and women?
Unmarried and divorced/separated men face a disproportionately higher risk of stroke, cardiovascular, cancer, and all-cause mortality compared to women, highlighting a sex-specific vulnerability associated with marital status.
Being unmarried conferred higher risk of stroke and all-cause mortality for men than women. Moreover, divorced/separated men had higher risk of cancer mortality and CVD mortality. Further studies are warranted to clarify the biological, behavioral, and/or social mechanisms involved in sex differences by these associations.
Wang et al. (Fri,) studied this question.