AM Johnson

Anne Kalela

GA Kaplan

GH Elder Jr

GJ Macfarlane

H Alastalo

H Kang

HK Kang

I Bramsen

I Koupil

J Pizarro

JA Boscarino

Jaana Renko

KK Watanabe

M Modan

MJ Fett

S Branth

Seppo T Nikkari

Tarja Kunnas

Tiina Solakivi

TK Boehmer

TL Thomas

BMC Public Health

English

Abstract
          
            Background
            Wartime stress has been associated with increased late-life mortality of all causes of death. We evaluated whether wounded Finnish World War II veterans who were alive at the age of 55 have increased long-term coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality.
          
          
            Methods
            Health survey data were recorded in 1980 from 667 men, aged 55 years. Of them 102 had been wounded or injured in action during 1939-1945. The remaining participants served as the comparison group. The death certificates during a 28-year follow-up were obtained from the national statistics centre. Statistical comparisons were done by Cox proportional hazard regression model.
          
          
            Results
            There were altogether 140 deaths from CHD. In men who had been wounded or injured in action the crude CHD mortality rate per 10,000 population was 2843, while in the comparison group the corresponding figure was 1961. Men who had been wounded or injured in action were 1.7 times (95% CI 1.1-2.5; p = 0.01) more likely to die from CHD than the comparison group.
          
          
            Conclusions
            Physical trauma at young adulthood may extend to lifelong effects on health. This study suggests that being physically wounded or injured in war may lead to increased CHD mortality in late adulthood in a Finnish population.
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