@article{ref1,
title="Women's death in Scandinavia--what makes Denmark different?",
journal="European journal of epidemiology",
year="2004",
author="Jacobsen, Rune and Von Euler, My and Osler, Merete and Lynge, Elsebeth and Keiding, Niels",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="117-121",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To compare the mortality for women in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in order to search for clues for the low life expectancy of Danish women. METHODS: Prospective age-period-cohort study covering 40 years for all Swedish, Norwegian and Danish women aged 40-84 during the period 1960-2000, and born 1900-1950. OUTCOME MEASURES: Relative risks and 95% confidence intervals for deaths. RESULTS: The high risk of dying among Danish women was associated with being born between the two World Wars, and that a similar pattern was not found for women in Norway and Sweden. A tendency of a cohort effect was observed for Swedish women born around 1940. CONCLUSIONS: The currently low life expectancy of Danish women compared with that of women in Norway and Sweden is partly a transitional phenomenon caused by excessive death rates for women born between the two World Wars. Data on smoking prevalence by birth cohort and age indicate that a high percentage of Danish women in these cohorts were smokers throughout their adult life.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0393-2990",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}