Does intergenerational social mobility among men affect cardiovascular mortality?
Sanna Tiikkaja Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Centre for Health Equity Studies, CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Sanna.Tiikkaja{at}ki.se’ + u + ‘@’ + d + ”//–> Örjan Hemstrom Centre for Health Equity Studies, CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Centre for Epidemiology, The National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden Background: Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular mortality are well documented. The aim here is to examine the relation between childhood and adulthood class as well as the role of unique intergenerational social mobility trajectories in such mortality. Methods: Data were obtained from Swedish registries. Childhood and adulthood information were from the 1960 and 1990 censuses. Men born 1945—59 (809,199) were followed-up for four cardiovascular mortality outcomes 1990— 2002 (5533 deaths) by means of Cox regressions. Th
