Table 2.
Cross-sectional analysis of spousal concordance for chronic disease and lifestyle factors
| Characteristic | No. of pairs | Paired data |
P-value* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H+/W+ (%) | H+/W- (%) | H-/W+ (%) | H-/W- (%) | |||
| Total | 520 | |||||
| Current smoking | 520 | 3 (0.6) | 108 (20.8) | 3 (0.6) | 406 (78.1) | <0.001 |
| Risky alcohol use | 240 | 69 (28.8) | 78 (32.5) | 32 (13.3) | 61 (25.4) | <0.001 |
| Low physical activity | 306 | 81 (26.5) | 47 (15.4) | 73 (23.9) | 105 (34.3) | 0.022 |
| Irregular diet | 517 | 24 (4.6) | 30 (5.8) | 57 (11.0) | 406 (78.5) | 0.005 |
| Breakfast skipping | 515 | 38 (7.4) | 28 (5.4) | 57 (11.1) | 392 (76.1) | 0.002 |
| Overweight | 442 | 81 (18.3) | 128 (29.0) | 65 (14.7) | 168 (38.0) | <0.001 |
| Hypertension | 497 | 118 (23.7) | 123 (24.7) | 62 (12.5) | 194 (39.0) | <0.001 |
| Diabetes | 496 | 28 (5.6) | 111 (22.4) | 35 (7.1) | 322 (64.9) | <0.001 |
| Dyslipidemia | 497 | 97 (19.5) | 103 (20.7) | 68 (13.7) | 229 (46.1) | 0.009 |
| Depression | 447 | 9 (2.0) | 17 (3.8) | 36 (8.1) | 385 (86.1) | 0.013 |
H, husband; W, wife.
*
Calculated using McNemar tests to evaluate spousal concordance.