Table 2.
Number of deaths and hazard ratios (95% CI) from age-adjusted Cox regression models for marital status and mortality in healthy participantsa stratified by gender.
| N | All cause death |
Cardiovascular disease death |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | HR (95% CI) | Deaths | HR (95% CI) | ||
| Men | |||||
| Married | 4272 | 231 | 1.00 | 66 | 1.00 |
| Single | 788 | 91 | 2.52 (1.97–3.21) | 31 | 3.02 (1.97–4.63) |
| Sep/Div | 746 | 84 | 2.25 (1.75–2.90) | 23 | 2.04 (1.25–3.34) |
| Widowed | 295 | 65 | 1.83 (1.37–2.45) | 25 | 2.51 (1.53–4.10) |
| Women | |||||
| Married | 4757 | 182 | 1.00 | 40 | 1.00 |
| Single | 743 | 53 | 1.66 (1.22–2.26) | 15 | 1.99 (1.10–3.62) |
| Sep/Div | 1258 | 54 | 1.28 (0.94–1.73) | 23 | 2.59 (1.55–4.33) |
| Widowed | 1030 | 132 | 1.38 (1.08–1.76) | 35 | 1.37 (0.84–2.23) |
a
Participants with previous hospitalisation for cardiovascular disease excluded from all analyses.