Association of childhood socioeconomic position with cause-specific mortality in a prospective record linkage study of 1,839,384 individuals

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 164, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 907-915

  Lawlor, Debbie A ^a   Sterne, Jonathan A C ^a   Tynelius, Per ^b,c   Smith, George Davey ^a   Rasmussen, Finn ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Medical record linkage; Mortality; Social class; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES; DIET; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; INJURY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33750296342     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj319     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Galobardes B, Lynch JW, Davey Smith G. Childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality in adulthood: systematic review and interpretation. Epidemiol Rev 2004;26:7-21.
2. Vagero D, Leon D. Effect of social class in childhood and adulthood on adult mortality. Lancet 1994;343:1224-5.
3. Davey Smith G, Hart C, Blane D, et al. Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study. BMJ 1997;314:547-52.
4. Davey Smith G, Hart C, Blane D, et al. Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood and cause specific adult mortality: prospective observational study. BMJ 1998;316:1631-5.
5. Claussen B, Davey Smith G, Thelle D. Impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on cause specific mortality: the Oslo Mortality Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:40-5.
6. Naess O, Claussen B, Davey Smith G. Relative impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic conditions on cause specific mortality in men. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:597-8.
7. Davey Smith G, Lynch J. Life course approaches to socioeconomic differentials in health. In: Kuh D, Ben-Shlomo Y, eds. A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology. 2nd ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2004:77-115.
8. Carr-Saunders AM, Caradog Jones D, Moser DA. A survey of social conditions in England and Wales. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon, 1958.
9. Webster C. Health, welfare and unemployment during the Depression. Past Present 1985;109:204-30.
10. Bartley M, Blane D, Charlton J. Socioeconomic and demographic trends, 1841-1994. In: Charlton J, Murphy M, eds. The health of adult Britain: 1841-1994. London, United Kingdom: The Stationary Office, 1997:74-92.
11. Gunnell D. Can adult anthropometry be used as a biomarker for prenatal and childhood exposures? Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:390-4.
12. Hart CL, Davey Smith G. Relation between number of siblings and adult mortality and stroke risk: 25 year follow up of men in the Collaborative study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:385-91.
13. McCarron P, Hart CL, Hole D, et al. The relation between adult height and haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke in the Renfrew/Paisley study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:404-5.
14. Song YM, Davey Smith G, Sung J. Adult height and cause-specific mortality: a large prospective study of South Korean men. Am J Epidemiol 2003;158:479-85.
15. An international association between Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer. The EUROGAST Study Group. Lancet 1993;341:1359-62.
16. Hu FB, Sigal RJ, Rich-Edwards JW, et al. Walking compared with vigorous physical activity and risk of type 2 diabetes in women: a prospective study. JAMA 1999;282:1433-9.
17. Steyn NP, Mann J, Bennett PH, et al. Diet, nutrition and the prevention of type 2 diabetes. Public Health Nutr 2004;7:147-65.
18. Doll R, Peto R, Boreham J, et al. Mortality from cancer in relation to smoking: 50 years observations on British doctors. Br J Cancer 2005;92:426-9.
19. Montalto G, Cervello M, Giannitrapani L, et al. Epidemiology, risk factors, and natural history of hepatocellular carcinoma. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002;963:13-20.
20. Lowenfels AB, Sullivan T, Fiorianti J, et al. The epidemiology and impact of pancreatic diseases in the United States. Curr Gastroenterol Rep 2005;7:90-5.
21. Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim S. The association of childhood socioeconomic position with coronary heart disease risk in post-menopausal women: findings from the British Women's Heart and Health Study. Am J Public Health 2004;94:1386-92.
22. Lawlor DA, Batty GD, Morton SMB, et al. Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment and adult cardiovascular risk factors: findings from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study. Am J Public Health 2005;95:1245-51.
23. Lawlor DA, Ronalds G, Macintyre S, et al. Father's occupational social class at the time of birth predicts future cardiovascular disease risk: findings from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study. Am J Public Health (in press).