The role of working conditions in educational differences in all-cause and ischemic heart disease mortality among Swedish men
Melody Almroth,
Tomas Hemmingsson,
Daniel Falkstedt
et al.
Abstract:OBJECTIVES: This study aims to investigate the extent to which low job control and heavy physical workload in middle age explain educational differences in all-cause and ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality while accounting for important confounding factors.
METHODS: The study is based on a register-linked cohort of men who were conscripted into the Swedish military at around the age of 18 in 1969/1970 and were alive and registered in Sweden in 2005 (N=46 565). Cox proportional hazards re… Show more
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