Sex differences in the association between marital status and the risk of cardiovascular, cancer, and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 7,881,040 individuals

• Main Authors: Yafeng Wang (Author), Yurui Jiao (Author), Jing Nie (Author), Adrienne O'Neil (Author), Wentao Huang (Author), Lei Zhang (Author), Jiafei Han (Author), Hao Liu (Author), Yikun Zhu (Author), Chuanhua Yu (Author), Mark Woodward (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Purpose To ascertain whether sex differences exist in the relationship between marital status and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), cancer and all-cause mortality in the general population and to explore the potential effect of age, location, the duration of follo...