Socio-economic status and overall and cause-specific mortality in Sweden

BMC Public Health

Table 7 Comparison between women and men: Correlation between HRs for women and men according to disease¹

Disease	Spearman coefficient	p value
Overall mortality	0.60	0.115
Cardiovascular disease	0.77	0.041
Ischaemic heart disease	0.76	0.028
Cerebrovascular disease	0.71	0.048
Other forms of heart diseases	0.92	0.003
Cancer	0.57	0.136
Lung cancer	0.96	<0.001
Colorectal cancer	0.50	0.667
Stomach cancer	0.87	0.873
Pancreatic cancer	-0.50	0.667
Respiratory disease	0.34	0.405
COPD	0.55	0.160
Influenza and pneumonia	0.27	0.558
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases	0.69	0.05
Diabetes Mellitus	0.76	0.028

¹ Socio-economic groups with significant HRs in at least one gender are included

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