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dc.contributor.authorKeenan, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorPloubidis, George B.
dc.contributor.authorSilverwood, Richard J.
dc.contributor.authorGrundy, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-24T10:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-07-24T10:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.identifier.citationKeenan , K , Ploubidis , G B , Silverwood , R J & Grundy , E 2017 , ' Life-course partnership history and midlife health behaviours in a population-based birth cohort ' , Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , vol. 71 , no. 3 , pp. 232-238 . https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-207051en
dc.identifier.issn0143-005X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250544778
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 2dbbc155-d9bf-419b-a8c5-9f8413fa19a8
dc.identifier.otherRIS: 10
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84988642796
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9670-1607/work/35292657
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000394271200005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11273
dc.descriptionThe research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC grant agreement n° 324055.en
dc.description.abstractBackground:  Marital and partnership history is strongly associated with health in midlife and later life. However, the role of health behaviours as an explanatory mechanism remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate prospective associations between life-course partnership trajectories (taking into account timing, non-marital cohabitation, remarriage and marital transitions) and health behaviours measured in midlife. Methods:  We analysed data from the British National Child Development Study, a prospective cohort study that includes all people born in 1 week of March 1958 (N=10 226). This study included men and women with prospective data on partnership history from age 23 to 42–44 and health behaviours collected at ages 42–46 (2000–2004). Latent class analysis was used to derive longitudinal trajectories of partnership history. We used multivariable regression models to estimate the association between midlife health behaviours and partnership trajectory, adjusting for various early and young adult characteristics. Results:  After adjustment for a range of potential selection factors in childhood and early adulthood, we found that problem drinking, heavy drinking and smoking were more common in men and women who experienced divorce or who had never married or cohabited. Women who married later had a lower prevalence of smoking and were less likely to be overweight than those who married earlier. Overall marriage was associated with a higher body mass index. Individuals who never married or cohabited spent less time exercising. Conclusions:  Some aspects of partnership history such as remaining unpartnered and experiencing divorce are associated with more smoking and drinking in midlife, whereas marriage is associated with midlife weight gain. Despite these offsetting influences, differences in health behaviours probably account for much of the association between partnership trajectories and health found in previous studies.
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dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rights© 2017 Keenan. K, et al. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectH Social Sciencesen
dc.subjectHM Sociologyen
dc.subjectRA Public aspects of medicineen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subject.lccHen
dc.subject.lccHMen
dc.subject.lccRAen
dc.titleLife-course partnership history and midlife health behaviours in a population-based birth cohorten
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-207051
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67874/en


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