Gove WR: Sex, marital status and mortality. Am J Sociology. 1973, 79: 45-67. 10.1086/225505.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Hu YR, Goldman N: Mortality differentials by marital status: an international comparison. Demography. 1990, 27: 233-250. 10.2307/2061451.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
McIntyre S: The effects of family position and status on health. Soc Sci Med. 1992, 35: 453-464. 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90338-Q.
Article
Google Scholar
Ross CE, Mirowsky J, Goldsteen K: The impact of the family on health: The decade in review. J Marriage Fam. 1990, 52: 1059-78. 10.2307/353319.
Article
Google Scholar
Murphy M, Glaser K, Grundy E: Marital status and long-term illness in Great Britain. J Marriage Fam. 1997, 59: 156-164. 10.2307/353669.
Article
Google Scholar
Murphy M, Grundy E, Kalogirou S: The increase in marital status differences in mortality up to the oldest age in seven European countries, 1990-99. Popul Stud. 2007, 61: 287-98. 10.1080/00324720701524466.
Article
Google Scholar
Wyke S, Ford G: Competing explanations for associations between marital status and health. Soc Sci Med. 1992, 34: 523-532. 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90208-8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Umberson D, Wortman CB, Kessler RC: Widowhood and depression: explaining long-term gender differences in vulnerability. Jl Health Soc Behav. 1992, 33: 10-24. 10.2307/2136854.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Hahn BA: Marital status and women's health - the effect of economic marital acquisitions. J Marriage Fam. 1993, 55: 495-504. 10.2307/352818.
Article
Google Scholar
Wilmoth J, Koso G: Does Marital History Matter? Marital Status and Wealth Outcomes among Pre-retirement Adults. J Marriage Fam. 2002, 64: 254-268. 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00254.x.
Article
Google Scholar
Goldman N: Marriage selection and mortality patterns: inferences and fallacies. Demography. 1993, 30: 189-208. 10.2307/2061837.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ebrahim S, Wannamethee GA, McCallum M, Walker Shaper AG: Marital status, change in marital status, and mortality in middle-aged British men. Am J Epidemiol. 1995, 142: 834-842.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Joung IM, van de Mheen HD, Stronks K, van Poppel FW, Mackenbach JP: A longitudinal study of health selection in marital transitions. Soc Sci Med. 1998, 46: 425-435. 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00186-X.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kiernan K, Mueller G: Who divorces?. Changing Britain, Families and Households in the 1990s. Edited by: McRae S. 1999, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 377-403.
Google Scholar
Murray JE: Marital protection and marital selection: evidence from a historical-prospective sample of American men. Demography. 2000, 37: 511-521. 10.1353/dem.2000.0010.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Osterman J, Sloan FA, Taylor DH: Heavy alcohol use and marital dissolution in the USA. Soc Sci Med. 2005, 61: 2304-2316. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.021.
Article
Google Scholar
Lund R, Holstein BE, Ostler M: Marital history from age 15 to 40 years and subsequent 10-year mortality: a longitudinal study of Danish males born in 1953. Int J Epidemiol. 2004, 33: 389-397. 10.1093/ije/dyh065.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Eng PM, Kawachi I, Fitzmaurice G, Rimm EB: Effects of marital transitions on changes in dietary and other health behaviours in US male health professionals. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2005, 59: 56-62. 10.1136/jech.2004.020073.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Lee S, Cho E, Grodstein F, Kawachi I, Hu FB, Colditz G: Effects of marital transitions on changes in dietary and other health behaviours in US women. Int J Epidemiol. 2005, 34: 69-78. 10.1093/ije/dyh258.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Williams K, Umberson D: Marital status, marital transitions, and health:a gendered life course perspective. J Health Soc Behav. 2004, 45: 81-98. 10.1177/002214650404500106. 2004
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Goldman N, Korenman S, Weinstein R: Marital status and health among the elderly. Soc Sci Med. 1995, 40: 717-730. 10.1016/0277-9536(94)00281-W.
Article
Google Scholar
Grundy E, Sloggett A: Health Inequalities in the older population: the role of personal capital, social resources and socio-economic circumstances. Soc Soc Sci Med. 2003, 56: 935-947. 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00093-X.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gardner J, Oswald A: How is mortality affected by money, marriage, and stress?. J Health Economics. 2004, 23: 1181-1207.
Article
Google Scholar
Michael YL, Berkman LF, et al: Living arrangements, social integration and change in functional health status. Am J Epidemiol. 2001, 153: 123-131. 10.1093/aje/153.2.123.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Pienta AM, Hayward MD, Jenkins KR: Health consequences of marriage for the retirement years. J Fam Issues. 2000, 21: 559-586. 10.1177/019251300021005003.
Article
Google Scholar
Samuelsson G, Dehlin O: Family network and mortality: survival chances through the lifespan of an entire age cohort. Int J Aging Human Devel. 1993, 37: 277-295.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Smith KR: Risk of mortality following widowhood: age and sex differences by mode of death. Soc Biol. 1996, 43: 59-71.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Mendes de Leon CF, Appels AW, Otten FWJ, Schouten EGW: Risk of mortality and coronary heart disease by marital status in middle-aged men in The Netherlands. Int J Epidemiol. 1992, 21: 460-466. 10.1093/ije/21.3.460.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ben-Shlomo Y, Smith GD, Shipley M, Marmot M: Magnitude and causes of mortality differences between married and unmarried men. J Epidemiol Community Health. 1993, 47: 200-205. 10.1136/jech.47.3.200.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Manzoli L, Villari P, Pirone GM, Boccia AA: Marital status and mortality in the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2007, 64: 77-94. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.031.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Rosengren A, Wedel H, Wilhemsen L: Marital status and mortality in middle-aged Swedish men. Am J Epidemiol. 1989, 129: 54-64.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dupre M: Disaggregating the effects of marital trajectories on health. J Fam Issues. 2007, 28: 623-652. 10.1177/0192513X06296296.
Article
Google Scholar
Lillard LA, Waite LJ: Till death do us part: Marital disruption and mortality. Am J Sociol. 1995, 100: 1131-1156. 10.1086/230634.
Article
Google Scholar
Brockmann H, Klein K: Love and Death in Germany: The Marital Biography and its effect on Mortality. J Marriage Fam. 2004, 66: 567-581. 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00038.x.
Article
Google Scholar
Grundy E, Holt G: Adult life experiences and health in early old age in Great Britain. Soc Sci Med. 2000, 51: 1061-1074. 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00023-X.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Tucker JS, Friedman HS, Wingard DL, Schwatrz JE: Marital history at midlife as a predictor of longevity: alternative explanations to the protective effect of marriage. Health Psychol. 1996, 15: 94-101. 10.1037/0278-6133.15.2.94.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kvale G, Heuch I, Nilssen S: Parity in relation to mortality and cancer incidence: a prospective study of Norwegian women. Int J Epidemiol. 1994, 23: 691-699. 10.1093/ije/23.4.691.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kington R, Lillard L, Rogowski J: Reproductive history, socioeconomic status, and self-reported health status of women aged 50 years or older. Am J Public Health. 1997, 87: 33-37. 10.2105/AJPH.87.1.33.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Grundy E, Tomassini C: Fertility history and health in later life: a record linkage study in England and Wales. Soc Sci Med. 2005, 61: 217-228. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.11.046.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Grundy E, Kravdal O: Reproductive history and mortality in late middle age among Norwegian men and women. Am J Epidemiol. 2008, 16: 271-279.
Google Scholar
Hattersley L, Creeser RR: Longitudinal Study 1971-1991. History, organisation and quality of data. 1995, London: HMSO
Google Scholar
Blackwell L, Lynch K, Smith J, Goldblatt P: Longitudinal Study 1971-2001: Completeness of Census Linkage. 2003, London: Office for National Statistics
Google Scholar
Ni Bhrolchain M: Changing partners: a longitudinal study of remarriage. Popul Trends. 1988, 53: 27-34.
Google Scholar
Goldblatt P: Longitudinal Study: Mortality and Social Organisation. 1990, London: HMSO
Google Scholar
Kirkwood BR, Sterne JAC: Essential Medical Statistics. 2003, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, second
Google Scholar
Selmer R: A comparison of Poisson regression models fitted to multiway summary tables and Cox's survival model using data from a blood pressure screening in the city of Bergen, Norway. Stat Med. 1990, 9: 1157-1165. 10.1002/sim.4780091005.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Loomis D, Richardson DB, Elliott L: Poisson regression analysis of ungrouped data. Occup Environ Med. 2005, 62: 325-329. 10.1136/oem.2004.017459.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Bowling A: Mortality after bereavement: A review of the literature on survival periods and factors affecting survival. Soc Sci Med. 1987, 24: 17-124. 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90244-9.
Article
Google Scholar
Martikainen P, Valkonen T: Mortality after death of spouse in relation to duration of bereavement in Finland. J Epidemiol Community Health. 1996, 50: 264-268. 10.1136/jech.50.3.264.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Doblhammer G: Reproductive history and mortality in later life: a comparative study of England & Wales and Austria. Popul Stud. 2000, 54: 169-76. 10.1080/713779087.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Heckman JJ: Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrica. 1979, 47: 153-161. 10.2307/1912352.
Article
Google Scholar
Valkonen T, Martikainen P, Blomgren J: Increasing excess mortality among nonmarried elderly people in developed countries. Dem Res. 2004, Special Collection 2 (Article 12): 305-330. 10.4054/DemRes.2004.S2.12.
Article
Google Scholar