Statistics Norway, Research Department, Box 8131 Dep, NO-0033, Oslo, Norway.
Soc Sci Med. 2012 Dec;75(12):2267-74. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.08.028. Epub 2012 Sep 3.
The chance of dying within any given year probably depends not only on marital status in that year but also on earlier partnership history. There is still not much knowledge about such effects, however. Our intention is to see how mortality is associated with time since divorce, bereavement and remarriage and time between marital disruption and remarriage. We use register data that include the entire Norwegian population aged 40-89 from 1970 to 2008 (70,701,767 person-years of exposure and 1,484,281 deaths). The excess mortality of divorced men compared to their married counterparts increases with time since divorce, while there is no such trend among divorced women. The pattern is opposite for the widowed, among whom there are indications of a more sharply positive association with time since bereavement for women than for men, though the association is rather weak for both sexes. The remarried have higher mortality than the first-time married, with one surprising exception: men who have remarried after a period of less than 10 years as divorced or widowed have the same mortality as the married. There is no clear association between mortality and time since remarriage. We discuss possible reasons for these patterns.
在任何给定的一年中死亡的几率可能不仅取决于当年的婚姻状况，还取决于之前的伴侣关系史。然而，关于这些影响的知识仍然有限。我们的目的是观察死亡率与离婚、丧偶和再婚时间以及婚姻破裂与再婚时间之间的关系。我们使用包括 1970 年至 2008 年期间所有 40-89 岁的挪威人口的登记数据（70701767 人年的暴露时间和 1484281 人死亡）。与已婚男性相比，离婚男性的超额死亡率随着离婚时间的推移而增加，而离婚女性则没有这种趋势。丧偶者的情况则相反，其中女性与丧偶时间之间的关联明显比男性更积极，尽管这种关联对于两性来说都相当微弱。再婚者的死亡率高于首次结婚者，但有一个令人惊讶的例外：离婚或丧偶后再婚时间不到 10 年的男性与已婚男性的死亡率相同。死亡率与再婚时间之间没有明显的关联。我们讨论了这些模式的可能原因。
