Table 1.

Prevalence ratio (PR and 95% CIs) between poor and not poor in two fixed and time-varying indicators for three health outcomes according to age and socioeconomic group in five Swedish cohorts from 1968 to 2011

	Teeth not in good conditions		Psychological distress		Musculoskeletal pain
	PR	95% CI	PR	95% CI	PR	95% CI
Fixed indicator: never poor versus poor at least once in life
15–24 years	1.35	1.05 to 1.73	1.64	1.25 to 2.15	1.23	0.96 to 1.57
25–34 years	1.39	1.17 to 1.64	1.95	1.56 to 2.44	1.39	1.17 to 1.65
35–44 years	1.22	1.09 to 1.36	1.77	1.46 to 2.14	1.47	1.27 to 1.70
45–54 years	1.20	1.07 to 1.34	1.79	1.48 to 2.16	1.62	1.42 to 1.85
55–64 years	1.08	1.00 to 1.19	1.59	1.34 to 1.90	1.44	1.26 to 1.64
65–74 years	1.04	0.94 to 1.16	1.48	1.19 to 1.83	1.33	1.13 to 1.55
75–85 years	1.08	0.94 to 1.22	1.20	0.96 to 1.50	1.26	1.05 to 1.51
>85 years	1.04	0.82 to 1.33	1.40	0.87 to 2.25	1.14	0.72 to 1.78
P value	<0.01*			0.12**		0.32**
Time-varying indicator: not poor versus currently poor
15–24 years	1.02	0.87 to 1.19	1.30	0.98 to 1.72	1.08	0.83 to 1.41
25–34 years	1.22	1.05 to 1.41	1.79	1.37 to 2.35	1.46	1.16 to 1.83
35–44 years	1.11	0.98 to 1.26	2.05	1.60 to 2.62	1.45	1.18 to 1.79
45–54 years	1.07	0.93 to 1.23	1.88	1.44 to 2.46	1.62	1.32 to 1.99
55–64 years	1.02	0.89 to  1.16	1.79	1.40 to 2.29	1.39	1.13 to 1.72
65–74 years	1.02	0.87 to 1.18	1.57	1.14 to 2.16	1.43	1.13 to 1.83
75–85 years	1.03	0.85 to 1.25	1.30	0.93 to 1.83	1.28	0.96 to 1.69
>85 years	1.00	0.67 to 1.50	0.87	0.40 to 1.90	1.15	0.58 to 2.31
P value	0.06*			0.11**		0.10**

Note: results controlled for sex, birth cohort (five groups) and period effect in 2010.

*χ² test for linear trend of PR over age (interaction of age and poverty).

**Chunk χ² test that all coefficients are equal (interaction of age and poverty).