Table IV.

Associations between working conditions across working life and successful ageing.

	Successful ageing (n=674)
	Complexity	High strain	Physically demanding	Hazardous
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Trajectories across working life (Crude model)
Low/de-accumulation	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Low/stable slope	0.91 (0.54, 1.54)	1.12 (0.68, 1.84)	1.40 (0.77, 2.58)	0.57 (0.36, 0.92)
Low/accumulation	0.93 (0.58, 1.50)	0.62 (0.41, 0.95)	0.75 (0.46, 1.22)	0.64 (0.33, 1.28)
High/de-accumulation	1.27 (0.75, 2.13)	0.84 (0.58, 1.23)	0.54 (0.39, 0.74)	0.56 (0.41, 0.77)
High/stable slope	1.57 (0.96, 2.56)	1.02 (0.63, 1.64)	0.45 (0.26, 0.80)	0.68 (0.30, 1.53)
High/accumulation	1.86 (1.14, 3.03)	0.52 (0.26, 1.02)	0.36 (0.21, 0.62)	0.40 (0.22, 0.75)
Adjusted model
Trajectories across working life (Adjusted model)
Low/de-accumulation	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Low/stable slope	0.89 (0.52, 1.51)	1.01 (0.62, 1.66)	1.28 (0.69, 2.36)	0.56 (0.35, 0.91)
Low/accumulation	0.96 (0.59, 1.56)	0.55 (0.36, 0.86)	0.81 (0.49, 1.34)	0.83 (0.42, 1.64)
High/de-accumulation	1.27 (0.74, 2.17)	0.87 (0.60, 1.28)	0.62 (0.44, 0.87)	0.67 (0.47, 0.97)
High/stable slope	1.43 (0.86, 2.40)	0.81 (0.50, 1.31)	0.56 (0.31, 1.02)	0.80 (0.34, 1.91)
High/accumulation	2.25 (1.34, 3.80)	0.65 (0.32, 1.34)	0.38 (0.22, 0.68)	0.38 (0.19, 0.76)

Adjusted model: adjusted for age, sex, educational attainment and childhood conditions assessed in 1991.

Indicators of working conditions were entered into four separate models.

Results in bold P<0.05.