Opara Samuel C O, Moran Caitlin A, Patel Shivani A, Sheth Anandi N, Hussen Sophia A, Varghese Jithin Sam
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Ann Epidemiol. 2025 Jul;107:8-12. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.05.004. Epub 2025 May 14.
The role of partners on an individual's cardiometabolic risk status in same-sex relationships is underexplored to date, despite significant health disparities impacting sexual minority individuals. This study investigated cardiometabolic risk concordance in same-sex older adult couples in the United States.
We conducted a pooled analysis of seven study waves of the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Survey (2006-2019) and estimated concordance of hypertension and overweight/obesity among same-sex couples.
Among 81 same-sex couples, we observed high concordance of hypertension and overweight/obesity among sexual minority male couples (39 couples, hypertension: 72.4 %, overweight/obesity: 64.2 %) and sexual minority female couples (42 couples, hypertension: 61.0 %, overweight/obesity: 35.6 %).
Our findings signify a need for longitudinal studies among same-sex couples to better characterize mechanisms of influence on partners' cardiometabolic health, as well as a potential role for couple-level interventions targeting cardiometabolic risk.
尽管存在影响性少数群体个体的重大健康差异，但迄今为止，伴侣在同性关系中对个体心脏代谢风险状况的作用仍未得到充分研究。本研究调查了美国同性老年夫妇的心脏代谢风险一致性。
我们对密歇根大学健康与退休研究（2006 - 2019年）的七个研究波次进行了汇总分析，并估计了同性伴侣中高血压和超重/肥胖的一致性。
在81对同性伴侣中，我们观察到性少数男性伴侣（39对）和性少数女性伴侣（42对）中高血压和超重/肥胖的一致性较高（性少数男性伴侣中，高血压：72.4%，超重/肥胖：64.2%；性少数女性伴侣中，高血压：61.0%，超重/肥胖：35.6%）。
我们的研究结果表明，有必要对同性伴侣进行纵向研究，以更好地描述影响伴侣心脏代谢健康的机制，以及针对心脏代谢风险的伴侣层面干预措施的潜在作用。
