Living alone and mortality among older people in Vasterbotten County in Sweden: a survey and register-based longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Living alone is increasingly common and has been depicted as an important cause of mortality. We examined the association between living alone and mortality risks among older men and women in northern Sweden, by linking two unique longitudinal datasets. METHODS:We used the Linnaeus database, which links several population registers on socioeconomic and health. This register-based study included 22,226 men and 23,390 women aged 50 and 60 years in Västerbotten County who had participated in the Västerbotten Intervention Program (VIP) during 1990-2006, with a total of 445,823 person-years of observation. We conducted Cox-proportional hazard regression to assess the risk of living alone on the mortality that was observed between 1990 and 2015, controlling for socio-demographic facto

SUBMITTER: Ng N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6945693 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature