Table 3.

Mortality rates of respondents to 1999 Large Health Survey of Veterans (n= 483,091). Cox Proportional Hazard Regression Models (131,396 events).

	Hazard ratio (95% CI)
	With adjustment for psychiatric co-morbidity (and age, race, gender, education, and service- connected disability)	With adjustment for medical co-morbidity, BMI, current smoking, exercise frequency (and age, race, gender, education, and service- connected disability)
Age 40–49a	2.70 (2.50, 2.92)	2.13 (1.95, 2.32)
Age 50–64 a	5.01 (4.73, 5.49)	3.64 (3.35, 3.96)
Age 65–74 a	10.76 (9.99, 11.59)	7.30 (6.72, 7.93)
Age 75–84 a	19.32 (17.93, 20.81)	12.13 (11.17, 13.18)
Age > 84 a	35.67 (32.98, 38.57)	20.18 (18.49, 22.02)
Male gender b	1.80 (1.73, 1.87)	1.64 (1.57, 1.71)
Education c	0.89 (0.88, 0.89)	0.96 (0.95, 0.96)
African American d	1.06 (1.02, 1.10)	1.00 (0.98, 1.02)
Hispanicd	0.78 (0.75, 0.79)	0.81 (0.79, 0.83)
Other race d	1.01 (0.99, 1.04)	0.94 (0.91, 0.96)
Service connection less than 50% e	1.16 (1.15, 1.18)	1.17 (1.15, 1.18)
Service connection greater than 50% e	1.21 (1.19, 1.23)	1.23 (1.21, 1.24)
Schizophrenia f	1.30 (1.25, 1.34)	1.13 (1.09, 1.16)
Bipolar disorder f	1.06 (1.01, 1.10)	0.99 (095, 1.04)
Major depressive disorder f	1.10 (1.07, 1.13)	0.92 (0.89, 0.99)
Other depression f	1.23 (1.20, 1.25)	1.00 (0.98, 1.02)
PTSD f	0.95 (0.93, 1.00)	0.91 (0.86, 0.98)
Alcohol use disorder f	1.63 (1.59, 1.68)	1.33 (1.29, 1.37)
Drug use disorder f	1.16 (1.10, 1.22)	1.11 (1.05, 1.16)
Medical co-morbidity g (# of conditions)		1.08 (1.06, 1.10)
Physical health status (V-SF36 PCS) h		0.97 (0.96, 0.98)
BMI (kg/ m2)
Underweight (<18.5) i		1.70 (1.63, 1.77)
Overweight (25.0–30.0)i		1.28 (1.27, 1.31)
Obese (>30) i		1.47 (1.45, 1.50)
Current daily smoker j		1.20 (1.19, 1.21)
Exercise frequency of 3 or more times per week k		0.89 (0.88, 0.90)

Reference groups for covariates:

^aage < 40;

^bfemale gender;

^cHigh school;

^dCaucasian race;

^eno service connection;

^fpatients without the specified psychiatric diagnosis;

^gpatients with no co-morbid medical diagnoses;

^hpopulation norm for the VSF-36 PCS subscale = 50;

ⁱnormal weight (BMI 18.5–24.5);

^jnon-smoker;

^kexercise frequency < 3 times per week.