Table 2.

Standardized cardiovascular death rate ratios in a 45–75 years old multi-ethnic cohort in The Netherlands.

	Men			Women
	SRR	95% CI	p value	SRR	95% CI	p value
Dutch	1.00	(ref)		1.00	(ref)
Antilleans	1.69	(1.59-1.79)	<0.0001	1.16	(0.98-1.33)	0.06
Surinamese	1.60	(1.55-1.65)	<0.0001	1.63	(1.56-1.69)	<0.0001
Germans	1.19	(1.10-1.28)	<0.0001	1.25	(1.13-1.37)	<0.0001
other countries	0.95	(0.90-1.01)	0.08	0.71	(0.61-0.81)	<0.0001
Indonesian	0.93	(0.87-1.00)	0.04	1.05	(0.96-1.13)	0.24
Turkish	0.92	(0.83-1.01)	0.10	0.87	(0.72-1.02)	0.12
Moroccan	0.56	(0.45-0.67)	<0.0001	0.82	(0.66-0.98)	0.05
Prosperity
1st (low prosperity)	1.89	(1.81-1.98)	<0.0001	1.65	(1.53-1.76)	<0.0001
2nd	1.36	(1.27-1.45)	<0.0001	1.13	(1.01-1.25)	0.03
3rd	1.00	(ref)			1.00	(ref)
4th	0.77	(0.66-0.88)	<0.0001	0.71	(0.56-0.86)	0.002
5th (high prosperity)	0.52	(0.42-0.63)	<0.0001	0.51	(0.36-0.65)	<0.0001
Dutch by Prosperity
1st (low prosperity)	2.56	(2.47-2.65)	<0.0001	1.90	(1.77-2.04)	<0.0001
2nd	1.49	(1.39-1.59)	<0.0001	1.26	(1.12-1.40)	<0.0001
3rd	1.04	(0.94-1.14)	0.43	1.13	(0.99-1.27)	0.05
4th	0.65	(0.54-0.77)	<0.0001	0.61	(0.44-0.78)	<0.0001
5th (high prosperity)	0.47	(0.36-0.57)	<0.0001	0.43	(0.26-0.59)	<0.0001
Surinamese by Prosperity
1th (low prosperity)	2.48	(2.35-2.61)	<0.0001	2.10	(1.95-2.25)	<0.0001
2nd	1.48	(1.30-1.66)	<0.0001	1.03	(0.78-1.29)	0.82
3rd	1.24	(1.04-1.43)	0.01	0.60	(0.18-1.01)	0.25
4th	1.57	(1.37-1.77)	<0.0001	1.12	(0.80-1.43)	0.44
5th (high prosperity)	0.67	(0.32-1.01)	0.17	1.15	(0.81-1.49)	0.37

SRR, standardized mortality rate ratio.

Ref, Reference population (Dutch for ethnicity groups, 3rd quintile of overall prosperity for prosperity groups).

CVD deaths, cardiovascular deaths ICD-10 diagnoses I00-I99.

Ethnicity, According to country of birth (person or parent).

Prosperity, Disposable household income combined with household wealth, in quintiles of the population.