TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Women's death in Scandinavia--what makes Denmark different?
JO  - European journal of epidemiology
A1  - Jacobsen, Rune
A1  - Von Euler, My
A1  - Osler, Merete
A1  - Lynge, Elsebeth
A1  - Keiding, Niels
SP  - 117
EP  - 121
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0393-2990
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -