Disability predicted mortality in men but not women with coronary heart disease

Kattainen, Anna; Reunanen, Antti; Koskinen, Seppo; Martelin, Tuija; Knekt, Paul; Aromaa, Arpo

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.10.004

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“…Permanent disability has been found previously to be associated with mortality for those suffering arthritis 6 , men with coronary heart disease, 39 and older subjects 40 . In 1993, the farm operators had a rate of permanent disability from injury of 5.74%.…”

Section: Association Of Fhs Cohort Exposures With Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 88%

Mortality in the California Farmer Health Study Cohort

Armitage

Mitchell

Schenker

2012

Journal of Agromedicine

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Western agriculture, in comparison with Midwestern and Eastern, is more diverse, with a drier climate, mild winters, and different exposures. This randomly selected cohort of 1947 Californian farmers confirmed the usual finding: a lower mortality rate than general population (by 50%). A low smoking prevalence and healthy worker effect are likely contributors. Although farmers were more likely to die from injuries and skin cancer, death was less likely from Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular diseases. Within the cohort, disability and persistent wheeze were associated with increased mortality. The 200 deaths were insufficient to determine the significance of rare diseases.

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Section: Association Of Fhs Cohort Exposures With Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 88%

Mortality in the California Farmer Health Study Cohort

Armitage

Mitchell

Schenker

2012

Journal of Agromedicine

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“…In addition to differences by gender in self-reporting behavior, differences in physiological, psychosocial and environmental factors may explain these variations. For heart disease, a higher disabling impact among females may be related to a more pronounced decline in lethality among females than males during the last decades, or to gender differences in the nature of heart disease causing better survival among disabled females than among disabled males [33], [34]. For DM, a more negative interference of the disease with protective mechanisms in the vascular wall causing thrombogenesis, and a negative influence of female gender on the effect of some cardiovascular risk factors are potential causes of the greater risk for vascular complications in females than in males [35], [36], [37].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contribution of Chronic Disease to the Burden of Disability

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BackgroundPopulation ageing is expected to lead to strong increases in the number of persons with one or more disabilities, which may result in substantial declines in the quality of life. To reduce the burden of disability and to prevent concomitant declines in the quality of life, one of the first steps is to establish which diseases contribute most to the burden. Therefore, this paper aims to determine the contribution of specific diseases to the prevalence of disability and to years lived with disability, and to assess whether large contributions are due to a high disease prevalence or a high disabling impact.Methodology/Principal FindingsData from the Dutch POLS-survey (Permanent Onderzoek Leefsituatie, 2001–2007) were analyzed. Using additive regression and accounting for co-morbidity, the disabling impact of selected chronic diseases was calculated, and the prevalence and years lived with ADL and mobility disabilities were partitioned into contributions of specific disease. Musculoskeletal and cardiovascular disease contributed most to the burden of disability, but chronic non-specific lung disease (males) and diabetes (females) also contributed much. Within the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular disease groups, back pain, peripheral vascular disease and stroke contributed particularly by their high disabling impact. Arthritis and heart disease were less disabling but contributed substantially because of their high prevalence. The disabling impact of diseases was particularly high among persons older than 80.Conclusions/SignificanceTo reduce the burden of disability, the extent diseases such as back pain, peripheral vascular disease and stroke lead to disability should be reduced, particularly among the oldest old. But also moderately disabling diseases with a high prevalence, such as arthritis and heart disease, should be targeted.

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“…Cognitive performance among older adults is prone to be affected by physical health status (Tombaugh and McIntyre, 1992), such as functional disability, hearing loss, and chronic disease, which are all closely related to mortality (Korten et al, 1999;Ostbye et al, 1999;Kattainen et al, 2004;Spiers et al, 2005;Takata et al, 2007;Lee et al, 2008). Cognitive performance among older adults is prone to be affected by physical health status (Tombaugh and McIntyre, 1992), such as functional disability, hearing loss, and chronic disease, which are all closely related to mortality (Korten et al, 1999;Ostbye et al, 1999;Kattainen et al, 2004;Spiers et al, 2005;Takata et al, 2007;Lee et al, 2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%