Table.

Relation of adult mortality (age 65-74 years in 1991-3) with infant mortality at time of birth and at time of death for 27 countries^*

	Infant mortality 1921-3						Infant mortality 1991-3
	Male			Female			Male			Female
	Coefficient	P value		Coefficient	P value		Coefficient	P value		Coefficient	P value
Pearson correlation coefficients:
All causes	0.52	0.005		0.51	0.007		0.58	0.002		0.63	<0.001
Respiratory tuberculosis	0.77	<0.001		0.73	<0.001		0.40	0.04		0.33	0.09
Stomach cancer	0.83	<0.001		0.82	<0.001		0.39	0.04		0.44	0.02
Lung cancer	−0.10	0.61		−0.48	0.01		−0.02	0.91		−0.23	0.24
Coronary heart disease	−0.05	0.81		0.16	0.42		0.13	0.53		0.28	0.16
Stroke	0.66	<0.001		0.63	<0.001		0.61	<0.001		0.64	<0.001
Partial correlation coefficients†:
All causes	0.32	0.11		0.28	0.17		0.42	0.03		0.50	0.009
Respiratory tuberculosis	0.71	<0.001		0.69	<0.001		0.01	0.96		−0.07	0.72
Stomach cancer	0.80	<0.001		0.77	<0.001		−0.08	0.71		0.04	0.87
Lung cancer	−0.10	0.60		−0.43	0.03		0.04	0.86		0.02	0.92
Coronary heart disease	−0.13	0.52		0.03	0.90		0.18	0.39		0.23	0.27
Stroke	0.51	0.008		0.45	0.02		0.42	0.03		0.48	0.01

^*Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. 

^†Sex and cause specific correlations of adult mortality with infant mortality in one period adjusted for infant mortality in the other period.