Sleep Apnea, Disability Pensions, and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Swedish Nationwide Register Linkage Study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 709-718

  Rod, Naja Hulvej ^a   Kjeldgård, Linnea ^b   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^b   Ferrie, Jane E ^c,d   Salo, Paula ^e,f   Vahtera, Jussi ^g   Alexanderson, Kristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

disability; disability pension; mortality; prospective studies; sleep; sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISABILITY; MORTALITY; PENSION SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SLEEP; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY PENSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PENSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT; BREATHING DISORDER; DISABLED PERSON; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PENSIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SUICIDE; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85029699534     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx138     Document Type: Article

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