Stroke and death-findings from a 25-year follow-up of a cohort of employed Swedish middle-aged men of the Coeur study

Abstract Aim In 1993, a study of 1000 automotive workers in Sweden and France looked into national differences cardiovascular disease. Here, we evaluate the proportion Swedish cohort that suffered stroke or died over 25-year period associated risk factors. Subject methods Data from 1993 included life-style questionnaire, health examination laboratory data. Figures on survival status up until end 2018 were collected registers. Survival analysis was used for both univariable multivariable analyses to associations between potential factors death, respectively. Results By 2018, 65 individuals had 160 died. analysis, found age, systolic blood pressure, Framingham index diabetes at baseline be significantly with during follow-up. For most traditional outcome, as blue-collar work living alone. age remained stroke, whereas eight (age, work, alone, waist–hip ratio, smoking habits, hypertension baseline) death Conclusion Few possibly explained by low power and/or different pathogenetic mechanism than myocardial infarction. Partly because occurred more often, did find number this outcome.