Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There are substantial and increasing educational differences in US adult life expectancy. To reduce social inequalities in mortality, it is important to understand how specific causes of death have contributed to increasing educational differences in adult life expectancy in recent years.

Objective

To estimate the relationship of specific causes of death with increasing educational differences in adult life expectancy from 2010 to 2017.

Design, setting, and participants

Serial cross-sectional study of 4 690 729 deaths recorded in the US National Vital Statistics System in 2010 and 2017.

Exposures

Sex, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment.

Main outcomes and measures

Life expectancy at age 25 years and years of life lost between ages 25 an

SUBMITTER: Sasson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6714034 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature