Cause specific mortality, social position, and obesity among women who had never smoked: 28 year cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the relations between causes of death, social position, and obesity in women who had never smoked.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland.

Participants

8353 women and 7049 men aged 45-64 were recruited to the Renfrew and Paisley Study in 1972-6. Of these, 3613 women had never smoked and were the focus of this study. They were categorised by occupational class (I and II, III non-manual, III manual, and IV and V) and body mass index groups (normal weight, overweight, moderately obese, and severely obese).

Main outcome measures

All cause and cause specific mortality during 28 years of follow-up by occupational class and body mass index, using Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age and other

SUBMITTER: Hart CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3125471 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature