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Changes in marital status influence body weight.
2003 MAY 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A U. S. longitudinal analysis showed that changes in marital status influence body weight in both men and women.
"The role of spouse is associated with better health. The dynamics of spousal roles can be represented by marital trajectories that may remain stable or may change by entry into marriage, dissolution of marriage, or death of a spouse. Body weight is an important health-related characteristic that has been found to have mixed relationships with marital status," scientists writing in the journal Social Science and Medicine report.
"This analysis examined changes in marital status and body weight in 9,043 adults in the U. S. National Health and Nutrition Epidemiological Follow-up Survey (NHEFS), a longitudinal national study that interviewed and measured adults in a baseline assessment and reassessed them again in a follow-up approximately 10 years later," stated Jeffery Sobal and collaborators at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. "Men's and women's weights were differently associated with marital changes. Women who were unmarried at baseline and married at follow-up had greater weight change than those who were married at both times.
"Analysis of weight loss and weight gain separately revealed that sociodemographic variables, including ...
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