Meng Xiao, Aolin Li, Yueqing Wang, Canqing Yu, Yuanjie Pang, Pei Pei, Ling Yang, Yiping Chen, Huaidong Du, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Avery, Qiang Sun, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Jun Lv, Dianjianyi Sun
BACKGROUND: A comprehensive depiction of long-term health impacts of marital status is lacking. METHODS: Sex-stratified phenome-wide association analyses (PheWAS) of marital status (living with vs. without a spouse) were performed using baseline (2004-2008) and follow-up information (ICD10-coded events till Dec 31, 2017) from the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB). We estimated adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) to evaluate the associations of marital status with morbidity risks of phenome-wide significant diseases or sex-specific top-10 death causes in China documented in 2017...
January 2024: The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific