Self Rated Health and Mortality in Elderly Kangwha Cohort, 8-year follow up.
- Author:
Hee Choul OHRR
;
Sun Ha JEE
;
Il Soon KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Aged*;
Cohort Studies*;
Female;
Follow-Up Studies*;
Humans;
Life Style;
Longitudinal Studies;
Male;
Mortality*;
Proportional Hazards Models
- From:Korean Journal of Epidemiology
1994;16(2):172-180
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The effect of self rated health on all cause mortality was. examined in a community residents sample of 2, 848 men and 3, 534 women aged 55 years or over who has been followed for eight years, 1985-1993. This longitudinal study, conducted in Kangwha County, Keanggido, began in 1985 with baseline examinations of physical and life style characteristics. The results indicate that the self-rated health has a profound and independent effect on all cause mortality during the study period. Cox's hazard model estimates that persons with 'poor' self-rated health has 1.7 times (CI 1.2-2. 6) higher risk of all cause mortality than persons with 'excellent' self-rated health and persons with 'worst' one has 4.2 (CI 2.6-6.2) in male. Estimates for women are similar to those of men. Further researchs to investigate the effects on cause specfic mortality and effects to reveal the work mechanism of self-rated health are highly expected.
