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Unusually strong association between education and mortality in young adults in a community with a high rate of injection-drug users (2003)
(Très forte implication de l'éducation sur la mortalité chez de jeunes adultes dans une communauté ayant un taux élevé d'usagers de drogues par voie intraveineuse)
Auteur(s) :
REGIDOR, E. ;
DE LA FUENTE, L. ;
CALLE, M. E. ;
NAVARRO, P. ;
DOMINGUEZ, V.
Année
2003
Page(s) :
334-339
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
23
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
JEUNE ADULTE
;
MORTALITE
;
INJECTION
;
MILIEU SOCIOCULTUREL
;
CIRRHOSE
;
FOIE
;
SIDA
;
APPAREIL CARDIOVASCULAIRE
;
SUICIDE
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE ANALYTIQUE
;
USAGER
;
VOIE INTRAVEINEUSE
Thésaurus géographique
ESPAGNE
Note générale :
European Journal of Public Health, 2003, 13, (4), 334-339
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
BACKGROUND: To examine the association between education and mortality for various causes of death in young adults in a community with a high rate of injection-drug users. METHODS: Linked mortality study based on mortality records for 1996 and 1997 and on 1996 population census data from the Region of Madrid (Spain). The association between educational level and mortality was estimated by the mortality rate ratio. RESULTS: After adjustment for age and other socioeconomic variables the mortality rate in men and women aged 25-44 years with no education was, respectively, 4.7 and 3.7 times higher than in men and women with the highest educational level. The causes of death with the strongest association were chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, AIDS and diseases of the heart in both sexes and suicide in men. For these causes of death the mortality rate ratio between persons with the lowest and highest educational level ranged from 6.8 to 21.8 in men and from 4.1 to 16.9 in women. CONCLUSIONS: These causes of death are the leading specific causes of death in persons aged 25-44 years. Given that probably a substantial part of deaths from diseases of the heart in this age category are drug-related, the common denominator of the excess mortality related poor education seems to be drug injection. (Review' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Dpt of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Univ. s/n, 28040 Madrid
Espagne. Spain.
Espagne. Spain.
Cote :
Abonnement