Open AccessDiabetes Mellitus and Marital Status: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study on the Effect of Marital Dissolution and the Death of a Spouse
Author(s) -
Augustine J. Kposowa,
Dina Aly Ezzat,
Kevin D. Breault
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s307436
Subject(s) - medicine , marital status , demography , spouse , socioeconomic status , diabetes mellitus , gerontology , epidemiology , logistic regression , population , longitudinal study , environmental health , endocrinology , pathology , sociology , anthropology
This study evaluates the full impact of marital status on diabetes mellitus by stratifying the analysis by gender, including socioeconomic covariates and, unlike most studies, extending marital status by separating out previously conflated status categories.