Key result
Young newly married couples demonstrated significant spousal concordance of cardiovascular risk factors, including adjusted systolic blood pressure (r=0.42; P<0.001).
Why the study?
It was unclear whether spousal cardiovascular risk factor associations reflect a shared environment and lifestyle or assortative mating.
Population
831 couples around the time of marriage registration in Liuyang, China
Comparison
Cardiovascular risk factor concordance between spouses
Design
Prospective cohort study
Authors
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May inform couple-based prevention; leaves open causality and practice change.
Cohort (n=1,662)
Effect estimate: r 0.42
p-value: p=<.001
Young newly married couples exhibit significant concordance in cardiovascular risk factors, suggesting that assortative mating contributes to the shared vascular risk profiles observed in older couples.
Retnakaran et al. (2021) conducted a cohort in Cardiovascular risk factors (n=1,662). Spousal relationship was evaluated on Spousal concordance of cardiovascular risk factors (r 0.42, p=<.001). Young newly married couples demonstrated significant spousal concordance of cardiovascular risk factors, including adjusted systolic blood pressure (r=0.42; P<0.001).
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