Table 2 Relation between educational level and incident cases of first cardiovascular event (stroke or coronary event) in the whole population.
Crude model | Age- and sex-adjusted model | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Educational level | N (%) | No. of cases | Incidence rate (per 100 000) | Hazard ratio (95% CI)† | Absolute difference | Incidence rate (per 100 000) | Hazard ratio (95% CI) † | Absolute difference |
8 years of education or less | 1,961 | 124 | 748 | 3.4 (2.0, 5.6) | 523 | 683 | 2.8 (1.6, 4.7) | 433 |
9 to 12 years of education | 1,483 | 56 | 441 | 2.0 (1.1, 3.4) | 216 | 456 | 1.9 (1.1, 3.4) | 206 |
More than 12 years of education* | 824 | 16 | 225 | 1.0 | 0 | 250 | 1.0 | 0 |
Total | 4,268 | 196 | 539 | 531 | ||||