Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics, number of deaths, and person-years follow-up by education group

	Education
	Low	Medium	High	Missing
Number of people, n	288,307	406,854	304,075	70,409
Women,%	51.8	49.2	51.9	52.8
Age at entry, %
30–49	34.6	66.1	75.6	52.3
50–64	26.9	20.6	17.4	11.0
65–79	29.0	11.0	6.1	9.4
80+	9.5	2.3	0.9	27.3
Marital status, %
Never married	19.6	33.1	38.2	23.1
Previously married	26.9	16.2	10.5	29.1
Married	53.5	50.7	51.3	46.4
Missing	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.4
Born in Sweden, %	83.6	83.7	79.7	31.5
Deaths, number
Rheumatoid arthritis	908	397	102	105
Other MSK disorders	2305	1097	323	477
Non-MSK disorders	99,340	53,243	19,217	22,507
Person-years follow-up	3,598,592	5,200,412	3,404,203	451,261

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