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Spousal caregiving and incident hypertension

Author(s) -

Benjamin D. Capistrant,

J. Robin Moon,

M. Maria Glymour

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1038/ajh.2011.232

Subject(s) - medicine , spouse , hazard ratio , health and retirement study , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , gerontology , relative risk , demography , socioeconomic status , proportional hazards model , epidemiology , environmental health , population , physics , sociology , anthropology , optics

Caring for one's spouse has been associated with poor health, including risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) onset and mortality. However, few studies have assessed the risk of incident hypertension associated with spousal caregiving. This paper investigates this association in a large, nationally representative sample of American older adults.

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