Married couples' risk of same disease: cross sectional study

Married couples' risk of same disease: cross sectional study.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether people whose marital partners have depression, diabetes, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, stroke, hyperlipidaemia, peptic ulcer disease, or asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are at increased risk of the same disease. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING 10 practices from the Trent Focus Collaborative Research Practice Network. PARTICIPAN...

Noise exposure and risk of hypertension: a cross-sectional study

  Abstract   Background: Previous studies have indicated an unspecific correlation between noise   exposure and blood pressure disturbances. Blood pressure disturbances could be caused   by the environmental hazards such as noise exposure. The aim of this study is to analyze   whether there is a relationship between noise exposure and hypertension.   Methods: Atotal sample of 218 workers workin...

Crohn's disease in two married couples.

Only two examples of married couples where both partners have developed Crohn's disease have been reported previously from the United Kingdom. We describe two further examples; one where the index patient had developed Crohn's disease before marriage, and the spouse subsequently developed Crohn's disease and a second example in which both spouses developed Crohn's disease after marriage.

ICSI Outcome in Infertile Couples with Different Causes of Infertility: A Cross-Sectional Study

Three-year follow-up of same-sex couples who had civil unions in Vermont, same-sex couples not in civil unions, and heterosexual married couples.

This study was a 3-year follow-up of 65 male and 138 female same-sex couples who had civil unions in Vermont during the 1st year of that legislation. These couples were compared with 23 male and 61 female same-sex couples in their friendship circles who did not have civil unions and with 55 heterosexual married couples (1 member of each was a sibling to a member of a civil union couple). Despit...