Table 2.

Deaths, person-years, and age-adjusted rate of death (95% confidence interval [CI]) per 1000 person-years by gender, race, and education

	Men					Women
	<high school	High school	Some college	College	Graduate degree	<high school	High school	Some college	College	Graduate degree
White
Number of deaths	64	177	192	169	141	44	125	144	74	53
Person-years (pys)	1068.3	4926.3	6101.2	7200.6	7184.7	1172.1	6297.5	7374.1	6148.3	5415.2
Age-adjusted rate per 1000 pys	32.0	22.4	21.1	15.8	13.3	20.0	12.6	14.0	9.2	8.4
(95%CI)	(24.0, 42.7)	(18.2, 27.5)	(17.3, 25.8)	(12.9, 19.4)	(10.7, 16.6)	(14.3, 28.2)	(9.9, 15.9)	(11.2, 17.5)	(7.0, 12.1)	(6.2, 11.4)
Black
Number of deaths	63	75	78	42	35	87	88	89	45	39
Person-years (pys)	1173.8	2876.9	2877.6	2099.6	1561.3	2435.2	5045.6	5555.2	3483.5	2926.0
Age-adjusted rate per 1000 pys	31.7	20.0	22.1	16.3	15.6	27.6	15.8	16.1	12.3	11.7
(95%CI)	(23.2, 43.3)	(15.0, 26.6)	(16.7, 29.1)	(11.6, 23.1)	(10.7, 22.7)	(21.6, 35.2)	(12.5, 19.9)	(12.8, 20.2)	(9.1, 16.8)	(8.4, 16.4)