Table 1 Demographic/lifestyle characteristics of couples undergoing IVF treatment (N = 326).

From: Spousal associations of serum metabolomic profiles by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

 

Females

Males

Correlation coefficient (95% CI)

P value for association between traits in couples*

Age (years)

35.6 (4.4)

37.2 (5.7)

0.61 (0.53, 0.69)

 < 0.001

Height (cm)

164.2 (6.3)

176.5 (5.1)

0.22 (0.12, 0.32)

 < 0.001

Weight (kg)

66.7 (9.7)

78.6 (10.2)

0.01 (− 0.10, 0.12)

0.86

BMI (kg/m2)

24.7 (3.24)

25.2 (3.0)

− 0.03 (− 0.14, 0.08)

0.55

Alcohol (units per week)

4 (1,8)

4 (2,9)

0.62 (0.50, 0.74)

 < 0.001

Education

School

146 (45%)

147 (45%)

  

Undergraduate

115 (35%)

139 (43%)

  

Postgraduate

65 (20%)

40 (12%)

 

 < 0.001

Smoking

Ever

83 (25%)

97 (30%)

  

Never

243 (75%)

229 (70%)

0.47 (0.36, 0.57)

 < 0.001

Physical activity (times per week)

Never/once

33 (10%)

29 (9%)

  

Twice

70 (21%)

73 (22%)

  

3–4 times

196 (60%)

177 (54%)

  

> 4 times

27 (8%)

47 (14%)

 

 < 0.001

Family history of cardiometabolic disease

Yes

167 (51%)

154 (47%)

  

No

159 (49%)

172 (53%)

0.39 (0.29, 0.50)

 < 0.001

Ethnicity

White

299 (92%)

300 (92%)

  

Non-white

27 (8%)

26 (8%)

0.73 (0.59 ,0.88)

 < 0.001

  1. *From Pearson’s correlation/chi square test.