Table 4. Adjusted association between living with a spouse with a given chronic condition and having that same or another chronic condition (n = 1,598).
| Husband’s chronic condition status | Adjusted relative odds of chronic condition in wives | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any chronic condition | Diabetes | Common mental disorder | Hypertension | Obesity | High cholesterol | |||||||
| OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | |
| Any chronic condition | 1.44 (1.14–1.82) | <0.01 | 1.59 (1.11–2.30) | 0.01 | 1.50 (1.06–2.12) | 0.02 | 1.40 (1.07–1.84) | 0.01 | 1.17 (0.84–1.64) | 0.35 | 1.71 (1.06–2.75) | 0.03 |
| Diabetes | 1.21 (0.87–1.68) | 0.26 | 2.28 (1.52–3.42) | <0.01 | 0.86 (0.54–1.37) | 0.53 | 1.19 (0.83–1.70) | 0.34 | 1.47 (0.98–2.20) | 0.06 | 1.41 (0.78–2.54) | 0.26 |
| Common mental disorder | 2.58 (1.63–4.09) | <0.01 | 0.87 (0.41–1.86) | 0.73 | 3.01 (2.01–4.52) | <0.01 | 1.28 (0.79–2.06) | 0.32 | 0.98 (0.59–1.64) | 0.94 | 1.61 (0.76–3.41) | 0.22 |
| Hypertension | 1.21 (0.94–1.55) | 0.13 | 1.51 (1.05–2.17) | 0.03 | 0.98 (0.68–1.42) | 0.92 | 1.20 (0.91–1.59) | 0.19 | 0.86 (0.61–1.20) | 0.38 | 1.18 (0.73–1.90) | 0.51 |
| Obesity | 0.82 (0.49–1.38) | 0.45 | 1.29 (0.61–2.71) | 0.50 | 0.64 (0.27–1.51) | 0.31 | 1.23 (0.69–2.18) | 0.49 | 1.60 (0.90–2.85) | 0.11 | 0.82 (0.25–2.70) | 0.75 |
| High cholesterol | 1.06 (0.66–1.69) | 0.81 | 1.29 (0.69–2.44) | 0.43 | 1.09 (0.58–2.02) | 0.79 | 0.95 (0.56–1.63) | 0.86 | 1.72 (1.00–2.97) | 0.05 | 0.77 (0.31–1.91) | 0.57 |
Notes: Data from 1,598 spousal dyads contributed to each model. Chronic conditions were defined as follows: diabetes, fasting plasma glucose ≥ 126 mg/dL or taking medication; common mental disorder, General Health Questionnaire score ≥ 12; hypertension, blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg or taking medication; obesity, body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2; and high cholesterol, total blood cholesterol ≥ 240 mg/dL or taking medication. The diagonal cells show the odds ratios for the same condition, and the off-diagonal cells show the odds ratios for differing conditions between the husband and wife. Models were adjusted for wife’s age and sex and the mean of years of husband’s and wife’s education, religion, and study site. Data from Madhya Pradesh were excluded from the common mental disorder analyses.