Changes in health-related behaviours and cardiovascular risk factors in young adults: associations with living with a partner.

Objective: To examine changes in cardiovascular risk factors and health-related behaviours in young Australian adults at a stage of transition from the family environment.

Study Design: Repeated surveys between 9 and 25 years of age in a community-based group that included 569 eighteen-year-olds and 600 twenty-five-year-olds.

Results: There were significant increases (P < 0.