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The Risk of Sharing a Life.

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| September 15, 2001 | Kubetin, Sally Koch | COPYRIGHT 2001 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Patients whose spouse has any of a variety of common chronic diseases are themselves at significantly elevated risk of having the same disease, Dr. Julia Hippisley-Cox reported at WONCA 2001, the conference of the World Organization of Family Doctors.

She studied the medical records of roughly 8,700 married heterosexual couples aged 30-74 enrolled in 10 general practices with good-quality computerized patient databases in the Trent area of England.

Spouses of depressed patients were at 2.2-fold greater risk of being depressed than controls, said Dr. Hippisley-Cox of ...

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