Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Cleusa Ferri and colleagues studied mortality rates in over 12,000 people aged 65 years and over in Latin America, India, and China and showed that chronic diseases are the main causes of death and that education has an important effect on mortality

Five leading causes of death by site, using cause of death as interpreted probabilistically by the InterVA model.

<p>Five leading causes of death by site, using cause of death as interpreted probabilistically by the InterVA model.</p

Cohort characteristics.

<p>Cohort characteristics.</p

Circumstances of death, by site.

<p>MV, missing values.</p

Mortality rate (per 1,000 person-years) by age group for each site among women.

<p>DR, Dominican Republic.</p

Mutually adjusted hazard ratios for the associations between sociodemographic factors and mortality, by site.

<p>Site-specific values are HR (95% CI).</p><p>df, degrees of freedom.</p

Mortality rate (per 1,000 person-years) by age group for each site among men.

<p>DR, Dominican Republic.</p

Total and sex-specific mortality rates (per 1,000 person-years) among people aged 65 and over and standardized mortality ratio.

<p>Rate and ratio data are given as percent (95% CI).</p>a<p>Standardized by age group, sex, education, occupational attainment, household assets, and food insecurity, using the whole sample as the standard population.</p>b<p>Standardized for age group and sex to US national rates for 2005.</p