Table 1.

Marital Status Changes Between Baseline and Follow-up in Study Participants, Dallas, Texas, 1987–2005

Baseline–Follow-up	All		Men		Women
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Single–singlea	321	3.7	220	3.2	101	5.1
Married–marrieda	7,506	85.3	5,898	86.3	1,608	81.8
Divorced–divorceda	285	3.2	200	2.9	85	4.3
Widowed–widowed	59	0.7	19	0.3	40	2.0
Single–marrieda	171	1.9	134	2.0	37	1.9
Single–divorced	9	0.1	8	0.1	1	0.1
Single–widowed	1	0.0	1	0	0	0
Married–divorceda	202	2.3	170	2.5	32	1.6
Married–widowed	37	0.4	21	0.3	16	0.8
Divorced–remarrieda	194	2.2	155	2.3	39	2.0
Divorced–widowed	0	0	0	0	0	0
Widowed–remarried	14	0.2	8	0.1	6	0.3
Widowed–divorced	0	0	0	0	0	0

^aBecause of the low frequency in some of the categories, we limited the main analyses to these 6 categories out of the 13 categories theoretically possible.