Association of Marital Status With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Asia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Marital status has been shown to be associated with mortality, but evidence in Asian populations is limited.

Objective

To examine the association of marital status with total and cause-specific mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study included individual participant data from 16 prospective studies in the Asia Cohort Consortium conducted between 1963 and 2015. Asian participants with complete information on marital and vital status were included. Study-specific hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs were estimated using Cox proportional hazards model and then pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis. The analysis began in February 2021 and ended in August 2021.

Exposures

Marital status.

Main outcomes and measures

All-cause an

SUBMITTER: Leung CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9157263 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature