Disability status, mortality, and leading causes of death in the United States community population.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined the effect of functional disability on all-cause mortality and cause-specific deaths among community-dwelling US adults.

Methods

We used data from 142,636 adults who participated in the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey-Disability Supplement eligible for linkage to National Death Index records from 1994 to 2006 to estimate the effects of disability on mortality and leading causes of death.

Results

Adults with any disability were more likely to die than adults without disability (19.92% vs. 10.94%; hazard ratio=1.51, 95% confidence interval, 1.45-1.57). This association was statistically significant for most causes of death and for most types of disability studied. The leading cause of death for adults with and without disability differed

SUBMITTER: Forman-Hoffman VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5302214 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature