Self-rated health predicts mortality -- but it depends on your age.

ABSTRACT: While self-rated health (SRH) has long been known to predict mortality in adult populations, the age of respondents plays an interesting and complex role in both explaining and modifying the association. The objective of this study is to test for differences by age in the association of SRH with all-cause mortality. Because much of the research has been conducted with older samples, a wider age range of adults may show that some age groups have more predictive SRH than others. We estimated Cox proportional hazards models to determine if SRH in 1999 predicted survival to 2021 differently based on age, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The sample consisted of 5843 respondents aged 25 to 97 who were interviewed in 1999 and followed for survival until 2021. We included demogr

SUBMITTER: Dore EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11585416 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature