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Relationship between self-rated health (as a continuous and dichotomous) variable and mortality |
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| Cox proportional hazards ratio for death during the study (95% confidence interval) |
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Female |
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| Self-rated health at entry |
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| (a) Ordinal Variable |
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| Very good |
0.62 (0.23–1.68) |
- |
| Good |
0.84 (0.64–1.11) |
1.73 (1.08–2.77) |
| Average |
1 |
1 |
| Poor |
1.52 (1.20–1.93) |
1.66 (1.29–2.14) |
| Very poor |
2.40 (1.66–3.46) |
2.49 (1.77–3.48) |
| P for trend |
<0.001 |
<0.001 |
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| (b) Dichotomous variable |
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| Very good/good/average |
1 |
1 |
| Poor/very poor |
1.69 (1.36–2.10) |
1.74 (1.38–2.20) |
Perlman and Bobak International Journal for Equity in Health 2008 7:19 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-7-19 |
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