Within-partner concordance of hypertension and overweight/obesity among sexual minority couples

IF 3.3 3区医学 Q1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Annals of Epidemiology Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.05.004

Samuel C.O. Opara , Caitlin A. Moran , Shivani A. Patel , Anandi N. Sheth , Sophia A. Hussen , Jithin Sam Varghese

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Abstract

Purpose

The role of partners on an individual's cardiometabolic risk status in same-sex relationships is underexplored to date, despite significant health disparities impacting sexual minority individuals. This study investigated cardiometabolic risk concordance in same-sex older adult couples in the United States.

Methods

We conducted a pooled analysis of seven study waves of the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Survey (2006–2019) and estimated concordance of hypertension and overweight/obesity among same-sex couples.

Results

Among 81 same-sex couples, we observed high concordance of hypertension and overweight/obesity among sexual minority male couples (39 couples, hypertension: 72.4 %, overweight/obesity: 64.2 %) and sexual minority female couples (42 couples, hypertension: 61.0 %, overweight/obesity: 35.6 %).

Conclusions

Our findings signify a need for longitudinal studies among same-sex couples to better characterize mechanisms of influence on partners’ cardiometabolic health, as well as a potential role for couple-level interventions targeting cardiometabolic risk.

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性少数夫妇高血压和超重/肥胖的伴侣内一致性。

目的：同性关系中伴侣对个体心脏代谢风险状态的作用迄今尚未得到充分探讨，尽管性少数群体存在显著的健康差异。本研究调查了美国老年同性伴侣的心脏代谢风险一致性。方法：我们对密歇根大学健康与退休调查（2006-2019）的七个研究波进行了汇总分析，并估计了同性伴侣中高血压和超重/肥胖的一致性。结果：81对同性伴侣中，性少数男性伴侣（39对，高血压：72.4%，超重/肥胖：64.2%）和性少数女性伴侣（42对，高血压：61.0%，超重/肥胖：35.6%）高血压和超重/肥胖的一致性较高。结论：我们的研究结果表明，需要对同性伴侣进行纵向研究，以更好地表征对伴侣心脏代谢健康的影响机制，以及针对心脏代谢风险的夫妻层面干预的潜在作用。

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来源期刊

Annals of Epidemiology 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

1.80%

发文量

207

审稿时长

59 days

期刊介绍： The journal emphasizes the application of epidemiologic methods to issues that affect the distribution and determinants of human illness in diverse contexts. Its primary focus is on chronic and acute conditions of diverse etiologies and of major importance to clinical medicine, public health, and health care delivery.