This review highlights recent advances in research addressing intimate partner relationships
and health. Consideration of the strong mutual influences that the members of a couple have …

This meta-analysis reviewed 126 published empirical articles over the past 50 years
describing associations between marital relationship quality and physical health in more …

Positive correlations between mates can increase trait variation and prevalence, as well as
bias estimates from genetically informed study designs. While past studies of similarity …

Background Tinnitus is a common condition in adults; however, the pathophysiology of
tinnitus remains unclear, and no large population-based study has assessed the associated …

Importance Couples are highly concordant for unhealthy behaviors, and a change in one
partner's health behavior is often associated with a change in the other partner's behavior …

We study how health behaviors are shaped through family spillovers. We leverage
administrative data to identify the effects of health shocks on family members' consumption …

We review research on families and health published between 2000 and 2009 and highlight
key themes and findings from innovative, methodologically rigorous studies. Whereas …

The etiology of depression has long been thought to include social environmental factors. To
quantitatively explore the novel possibility of person-to-person spread and network-level …

Globally, one out of three people suffer from a mental health issue during their lifetime. In
romantic relationships, impaired mental health does not only affect the individual but also …

Being overweight or obese can have a negative impact on fertility outcomes. This systematic
review updates randomized controlled trial (RCT) findings on the effectiveness of weight …