Contribution of income and job strain to the association between education and cardiovascular disease in 1.6 million Danish employees.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We examined the extent to which associations between education and cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality are attributable to income and work stress.

Methods and results

We included all employed Danish residents aged 30-59 years in 2000. Cardiovascular disease morbidity analyses included 1 638 270 individuals, free of cardiometabolic disease (CVD or diabetes). Mortality analyses included 41 944 individuals with cardiometabolic disease. We assessed education and income annually from population registers and work stress, defined as job strain, with a job-exposure matrix. Outcomes were ascertained until 2014 from health registers and risk was estimated using Cox regression. During 10 957 399 (men) and 10 776 516 person-years (women), we identified 51 585 and

SUBMITTER: Framke E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071845 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature