Alcohol Use and Blood Pressure Among Older Couples: The Moderating Role of Negative Marital Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Spouses often have concordant drinking behaviors and important influences on one another's cardiovascular health. However, little is known about the implications of dyadic drinking patterns for blood pressure, and the marital factors that confer risk or resilience. This article examined links between alcohol use and blood pressure within individuals and opposite-sex couples over time, and whether those links vary by negative marital quality among older adults.

Methods

Participants were from the nationally representative longitudinal Health and Retirement Study that included 4,619 respondents in 2,682 opposite-sex couples who participated in at least 2 of the waves from 2006 to 2016. Participants reported the number of drinks they typically consume per week, negati

SUBMITTER: Birditt KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9434470 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature