Distribution of demographic, health and personality variables by number of breakups
| Females | Males | P value | |||
| Total number | 1499 | 30.8% | 3363 | 69.2% | |
| Number of partnership breakups/divorces | <0.0001 | ||||
| 0 | 731 | 48.8% | 1810 | 54.3% | |
| 1 | 440 | 29.4% | 896 | 26.9% | |
| 2+ | 271 | 18.1% | 464 | 13.9% | |
| None and never cohabitated* | 57 | 3.8% | 166 | 5.0% | |
| Number of years lived alone | 0.0072 | ||||
| 0–1 | 695 | 46.4% | 1693 | 50.7% | |
| 2–6 | 327 | 21.8% | 716 | 21.5% | |
| 7+ | 477 | 31.8% | 927 | 27.8% | |
| Age (mean and SD† in years) | 52.7 | 4.35 | 55.3 | 3.22 | <0.0001 |
| Educational level | 0.13 | ||||
| Low | 307 | 20.5% | 644 | 19.3% | |
| Middle | 35 | 2.3% | 54 | 1.6% | |
| High | 1157 | 77.2% | 2638 | 79.1% | |
| Original cohort‡ | <0.0001 | ||||
| Metropolit | – | – | 2187 | 65.6% | |
| DALWUH | 681 | 45.4% | 501 | 15.0% | |
| CPC | 818 | 54.6% | 648 | 19.4% | |
| Number of chronic diseases§ | 0.8263 | ||||
| 0 | 566 | 37.8% | 1242 | 40.9% | |
| 1 | 553 | 36.9% | 1198 | 37.0% | |
| 2 | 262 | 17.5% | 595 | 28.7% | |
| 3 | 82 | 5.5% | 203 | 22.7% | |
| 4 | 28 | 1.9% | 76 | 25.2% | |
| 5+ | 8 | 0.5% | 22 | 0.8% | |
| Present acute inflammation¶ | 0.2906 | ||||
| Yes | 461 | 30.8% | 1077 | 32.3% | |
| No | 1038 | 69.2% | 2259 | 67.7% | |
| Recent medicinal intake** | 0.0108 | ||||
| 0 | 1213 | 80.9% | 2662 | 79.8% | |
| 1 | 278 | 18.5% | 617 | 18.5% | |
| 2 | 8 | 0.5% | 52 | 1.6% | |
| 3 | 0 | 0.0% | 5 | 0.1% | |
| Number of eMLE†† | <0.0001 | ||||
| 0 | 733 | 48.9% | 1870 | 56.1% | |
| 1 | 358 | 23.9% | 725 | 21.7% | |
| 2 | 233 | 15.5% | 420 | 12.6% | |
| 3 | 103 | 6.9% | 219 | 6.6% | |
| 4+ | 72 | 4.8% | 102 | 3.1% | |
| BMI‡‡ | <0.0001 | ||||
| Under weight (18.5<BMI<25) | 34 | 2.3% | 14 | 0.4% | |
| Normal weight (BMI <25) | 787 | 52.5% | 1229 | 36.8% | |
| Overweight (25<BMI<30) | 471 | 31.4% | 1582 | 47.6% | |
| Obese (BMI >30) | 207 | 13.8% | 511 | 15.3% | |
| Personality score§§ | |||||
| Neuroticism (median, Q1, Q3) | 18 | 24 | 16 | 21 | <0.0001 |
| Agreeableness (median, Q1, Q3) | 35 | 39 | 33 | 36 | <0.0001 |
| Conscientiousness (median, Q1, Q3) | 34 | 37 | 34 | 37 | 0.1213 |
*Excluded from analyses on numbers of partnerships breakups.
† SD, standard deviation.
‡ Cohorts: Metropolit cohort (men only); DALWUH, Danish Longitudinal Study on Work, Unemployment and Health; CPC, Copenhagen perinatal cohort
§ Chronic diseases: allergies, diabetes, hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease (including asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema), autoimmune diseases and arthritis, cancer including leukaemia, mental disorders.
¶ Acute inflammation includes information on recent inflammatory events or dentist’s appointments, infections, fever, or vaccinations.
**Pharmaceutical intake of inflammatory importance: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), statins, steroids and immunosuppressive agents.
††eMLE: early major life events.
‡‡Body mass index, kg/m2
§§Q1, lower quartile; Q3, upper quartile.