Achieving a 25% reduction in premature non-communicable disease mortality: the Swedish population as a cohort study

Table 1 Crude mortality rates per 1,000 person-years for the 30 to 69 year age group in the Swedish population during 1991 to 2006, by causes of death and background factors, for 292,320 deaths occurring over 70,768,842 person-years

	All causes	Non-communicable disease causes					Other causes
	All causes	Cardiovascular	Cancer	Diabetes	Chronic respiratory	All	Other causes
Overall	4.13	1.27	1.57	0.08	0.12	3.04	1.09
Sex
Female	3.14	0.70	1.57	0.05	0.11	2.44	0.70
Male	5.10	1.84	1.58	0.10	0.12	3.64	1.47
Age group
30–39 years	0.74	0.08	0.15	0.01	0.01	0.26	0.49
40–49 years	1.79	0.36	0.57	0.03	0.02	0.98	0.80
50–59 years	4.49	1.23	1.81	0.08	0.09	3.22	1.27
60–69 years	11.90	4.35	4.75	0.22	0.45	9.78	2.13
Time period
2003–2006	3.76	0.99	1.53	0.08	0.11	2.71	1.04
1999–2002	3.89	1.15	1.51	0.07	0.12	2.86	1.03
1995–1998	4.18	1.34	1.57	0.08	0.12	3.11	1.08
1991–1994	4.75	1.65	1.69	0.08	0.13	3.54	1.21
Marital status
Partnered	3.97	1.23	1.79	0.06	0.10	3.19	0.78
Single	2.98	0.87	0.79	0.07	0.07	1.80	1.18
Widowed/divorced	8.60	2.76	2.97	0.17	0.35	6.24	2.36
Education level
Tertiary	2.38	0.59	1.13	0.03	0.04	1.78	0.60
Upper secondary	3.29	0.93	1.28	0.06	0.08	2.35	0.93
Lower secondary	3.09	0.77	1.05	0.06	0.08	1.96	1.13
Primary	9.55	3.52	3.46	0.20	0.35	7.53	2.02
Unknown	3.93	1.13	1.11	0.08	0.11	2.44	1.49
Employment status
Full-time – high income	3.07	0.92	1.42	0.03	0.04	2.42	0.65
Full-time – mid income	3.08	0.89	1.36	0.04	0.06	2.36	0.72
Full-time – low income	3.41	0.91	1.42	0.06	0.09	2.49	0.92
Part-time employment	2.79	0.67	0.97	0.06	0.06	1.76	1.03
Not employed	10.42	3.80	2.95	0.26	0.44	7.45	2.97
Migration status
In-migrant	3.23	0.92	1.15	0.06	0.08	2.20	1.03
Swedish-born	4.29	1.33	1.65	0.08	0.12	3.19	1.10

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