Marital status and occupation in relation to short-term case fatality after a first coronary event - a population based cohort

Table 1 CFR (the 1^st day) after first incident coronary event in relation to marital status

	Married		Never married		Divorced		Widowed
Sex	(%)	OR Ref.	(%)	OR (95% CI)	(%)	OR (95% CI)	(%)	OR (95% CI)
No. first coronary events men	2091		362		434		45
No. deaths men	486 (23.2)		147 (40.6)		161 (37.1)		16 (35.6)
Men^a		1		2.72 (2.14-3.46)		2.15 (1.72-2.69)		1.80 (0.96-3.37)
Men^{a, b}		1		2.56 (1.99-3.29)		2.01 (1.60-2.54)		1.47 (0.78-2.79)
Men^{a, b, c}		1		2.14 (1.63-2.81)		1.91 (1.50-2.43)		1.49 (0.77-2.89)
No. first coronary events women	343		31		104		25
No. deaths women	66 (19.2)		11 (35.5)		28 (26.9)		9 (36.0)
Women^a		1		2.31(1.06-5.06)		1.55 (0.93-2.58)		2.36 (1.00-5.58)
Women^{a, b}		1		2.21 (0.98-4.98)		1.78 (1.04-3.07)		2.43 (0.98-6.01)
Women^{a, b, c}		1		2.32 (0.93-5.81)		1.87 (1.04-3.36)		2.74 (1.03-7.28)

Abbreviations: OR, Odds Ratio; CI, confidence interval.
OR calculated after adjustment for age at first coronary event^a and for date of first coronary event, systolic blood pressure, blood pressure medication, diabetes, cholesterol, log triglycerides, body mass index, angina pectoris, smoking, physical inactivity, stressful work, problematic alcohol behaviour^b and occupation^c. The final model was based on 2772 men (738 deaths) and 437 women (96 deaths) with complete information on all covariates.

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