TABLE 4—
Hazard Ratios (HRs) (With 95% Confidence Interval [CI] for Association of Mortality With Social Class in Childhood and Adulthood, Adjusted for Age and Adult Smoking and Body Mass Index (BMI) (n = 11 855): Mothers of the 1958 British Birth Cohort
| Nonmanual Adulthood Social Class | Manual Adulthood Social Class | |||
| Risk Factor and Adjusted Variables | Nonmanual Childhood Social Class (n = 1523), HR (95% CI) | Manual Childhood Social Class (n = 1828), HR (95% CI) | Nonmanual Childhood Social Class (n = 1475), HR (95% CI) | Manual Childhood Social Class (n = 7029), HR (95% CI) |
| All cause (n = 3132) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 1.08 (0.93, 1.24) | 1.34 (1.16, 1.55) | 1.48 (1.32, 1.65) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 1.03 (0.89, 1.19) | 1.21 (1.05, 1.40) | 1.30 (1.16, 1.45) |
| Circulatory disease (n = 1085) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 1.33 (1.03, 1.72) | 1.69 (1.30, 2.18) | 1.95 (1.58, 2.40) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 1.25 (0.97, 1.62) | 1.49 (1.15, 1.92) | 1.66 (1.34, 2.05) |
| Coronary heart disease (n = 582) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 1.41 (0.97, 2.04) | 1.89 (1.31, 2.73) | 2.32 (1.72, 3.14) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 1.30 (0.90, 1.89) | 1.61 (1.11, 2.33) | 1.90 (1.40, 2.58) |
| Stroke (n = 217) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 1.31 (0.76, 2.26) | 1.54 (0.89, 2.67) | 1.70 (1.09, 2.64) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 1.27 (0.74, 2.18) | 1.43 (0.82, 2.49) | 1.53 (0.98, 2.39) |
| Respiratory disease (n = 286) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 1.12 (0.63, 1.99) | 1.86 (1.08, 3.21) | 2.71 (1.74, 4.20) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 1.07 (0.60, 1.90) | 1.65 (0.96, 2.85) | 2.27 (1.46, 3.53) |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (n = 183) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 1.46 (0.70, 3.03) | 2.33 (1.15, 4.71) | 3.08 (1.71, 5.58) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 1.35 (0.65, 2.80) | 1.92 (0.95, 3.89) | 2.41 (1.33, 4.37) |
| Stomach cancer (n = 42) | ||||
| Age | 1.00 | 3.42 (0.71, 16.48) | 1.87 (0.31, 11.20) | 4.16 (0.99, 17.42) |
| Age, smoking, BMI | 1.00 | 3.17 (0.66, 15.34) | 1.60 (0.27, 9.65) | 3.48 (0.83, 14.65) |