What causes concordance of hypertension between spouses in India? Identifying a critical knowledge gap from a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of 63,020 couples aged 15 + years

• Главные авторы: Gayatri Nayak (Автор), Shishirendu Ghosal (Автор), Jyoti Ghosal (Автор), Ambarish Dutta (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: BMC, 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Hypertension, a critical risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, is found to cluster between spouses due to within-couple aggregation of antecedent environmental risk factors, either through assortative mating or cohabitation. However, majority of the evidence of spousal concord...