Australian occupational mortality, 1965-67: cause specific or general susceptibility.

Smoking-related general and cause-specific mortality in Estonia

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking is known to be the single largest cause of premature death worldwide. The aim of present study was to analyse the effect of smoking on general and cause-specific mortality in the Estonian population. METHODS The data from 51,756 adults in the Estonian Genome Center of the University of Tartu was used. Information on dates and causes of death was retrieved from the N...

Cause-specific mortality by occupational skill level in Canada: a 16-year follow-up study.

INTRODUCTION Mortality data by occupation are not routinely available in Canada, so we analyzed census-linked data to examine cause-specific mortality rates across groups of occupations ranked by skill level. METHODS A 15% sample of 1991 Canadian Census respondents aged 25 years or older was previously linked to 16 years of mortality data (1991-2006). The current analysis is based on 2.3 mill...

Occupational mortality: work or way of life?

For more than 100 years the Registrar General has reviewed mortality in depth in a series of supplements relating extra information provided by decennial censuses to deaths in a period before and after the census. The volume describing occupationl mortiality in 1970--72 was recently published (Registrar General, 1978). Here we consider in more detail one of the questions raised by occupational ...

The FoxO3 gene and cause‐specific mortality

The G allele of the FOXO3 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2802292 exhibits a consistently replicated genetic association with longevity in multiple populations worldwide. The aims of this study were to quantify the mortality risk for the longevity-associated genotype and to discover the particular cause(s) of death associated with this allele in older Americans of diverse ancestry. It in...

Cause-Specific Mortality among Medicare Enrollees