Partnership and marriage and risk of type 2 diabetes: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: In this review, we discuss how partnership and marriage influence cardiometabolic risk factors and risk of type 2 diabetes, and how couple-based approaches to type 2 diabetes prevention might complement individual-focused prevention efforts. There is some evidence that being married per se has a small positive effect on type 2 diabetes risk. Moreover, there is spousal concordance for many type 2 diabetes risk factors due to assortative mating and convergence during partnership, with weak to moderate correlations found for anthropometric measures, blood pressure, lipid concentrations, smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity level. A meta-analysis shows that people have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes if their spouse has diabetes (OR 1.72, 95% CI 1.47, 2.02). However, despite som

SUBMITTER: Kowall B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11950033 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature