Table 4.
Sustained enjoyment of life and cardiovascular death in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing cohort (n=9365)
| No of reports of high enjoyment of life between 2002 and 2006 per participant | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | One | Two | Three | Per one report increase | |
| Cardiovascular deaths (No (%)) | 116 (28) | 98 (24) | 93 (23) | 103 (25) | — |
| Covariates (hazard ratio (95% CI)): | |||||
| Age, sex | 1 (reference) | 0.95 (0.69 to 1.29) | 0.80 (0.58 to 1.10) | 0.62 (0.46 to 0.84) | 0.86 (0.78 to 0.94) |
| Fully adjusted* | 1 (reference) | 1.02 (0.74 to 1.40) | 0.92 (0.76 to 1.30) | 0.83 (0.61 to 1.14) | 0.94 (0.85 to 1.04) |
Results based on 10 imputed datasets.
*Wealth, education, ethnicity, marital status, employment, fair/poor self-rated health, limiting longstanding illness, coronary heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lung disease, diabetes, arthritis, impaired mobility and activities of daily living, depressive illness, and current symptoms of depression.