Table 2.

Characteristics of Bereaved and Nonbereaved Persons by Sex

	Men						Women
	Bereaved			Nonbereaved			Bereaved			Nonbereaved
	%	No. of Deaths	Rate	%	No. of Deaths	Rate	%	No. of Deaths	Rate	%	No. of Deaths	Rate
Age, y
40 to 44	16.6	10	0.11	31.5	410	0.11	16.2	3	0.03	31.1	108	0.03
45 to 49	22.4	46	0.37	28.8	833	0.25	21.9	6	0.05	28.6	186	0.06
50 to 54	25.0	89	0.64	21.1	1330	0.55	24.8	24	0.18	21.3	251	0.11
55 to 59	20.7	132	1.15	12.1	1310	0.95	20.9	34	0.30	12.4	315	0.23
60 to 64	11.9	131	1.98	5.1	940	1.61	12.4	43	0.63	5.4	262	0.44
65 to 69	3.4	61	3.24	1.2	349	2.62	3.8	24	1.17	1.3	103	0.72
Socioeconomic status
Blue‐collar worker	48.0	227	0.85	40.8	2385	0.51	36.0	56	0.28	29.7	451	0.14
White‐collar worker	31.2	123	0.71	40.2	1502	0.33	32.0	29	0.17	39.8	302	0.07
Self‐employed	10.6	54	0.92	10.8	585	0.48	4.3	4	0.17	4.3	49	0.10
Outside labor market	10.2	65	1.16	8.2	700	0.75	27.8	45	0.30	26.1	423	0.15
Marital status
Married	57.4	262	0.83	60.8	2952	0.43	65.8	72	0.20	68.3	742	0.10
Previously married	8.4	76	1.64	7.5	725	0.85	12.0	35	0.53	10.6	233	0.20
Never married	34.3	131	0.69	31.7	1495	0.41	22.2	27	0.22	21.2	250	0.11
No. of children
0	28.9	126	0.79	29.6	1389	0.41	17.3	24	0.25	18.9	451	0.21
1	19.2	91	0.86	18.8	923	0.43	19.2	28	0.27	19.0	302	0.14
2	33.3	144	0.78	34.5	1626	0.41	38.8	38	0.18	40.4	49	0.01
>2	18.6	108	1.05	17.1	1234	0.63	24.6	44	0.33	21.7	423	0.18
No. of siblings
1	17.7	69	0.71	41.3	2085	0.44	18.0	20	0.20	41.7	742	0.16
2	25.6	119	0.84	29.3	1414	0.42	25.1	33	0.24	29.0	233	0.07
>2	56.8	281	0.90	29.4	1673	0.50	56.8	81	0.26	29.3	250	0.08
Total	100.0	469	0.85	100.0	5172	0.45	100.0	134	0.24	100.0	1225	0.11

Deaths refer to deaths from myocardial infarction.

Descriptive statistics for region of residence and calendar year are not displayed.

Number of person‐years (total risk time) is 552 886 in bereaved men, 11 383 335 in nonbereaved men, 548 381 in bereaved women, and 11 105 989 in nonbereaved women.

% refers to percentage of total risk time.

Rate is number of deaths per person‐years multiplied by 1000.