Married Couples
Dependent wives in their 20s had incidence comparable to their husbands, unlike dependent wives aged 30 and older. Syphilis incidence among married men was generally lower than in the overall male population. The married-couple analysis in…
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Dependent wives in their 20s had incidence comparable to their husbands, unlike dependent wives aged 30 and older. Syphilis incidence among married men was generally lower than in the overall male population. The married-couple analysis included 2,294,184 couples in which the husband was the primary insured person and the wife was a dependent. Low partner testing may have caused underestimation of spouse-to-spouse transmission. Only 12.8% of married couples with at least one syphilis diagnosis had the other partner tested within 90 days.