Public Health Reports
Volume 100, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 301-307

The British-Norwegian migrant study: 5-year mortality differentials due to cigarette smoking (Article)

Rogot E. , Feinleib M. , Lambert P.M. , Zeiner-Henriksen T.
  • a Epidemiology and Biometry Program, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20205, United States
  • b Epidemiology and Biometry Program, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20205, United States
  • c Epidemiology and Biometry Program, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20205, United States
  • d Epidemiology and Biometry Program, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20205, United States

Abstract

Cigarette smoking and 5-year survivorship of 20,017 British and 10,016 Norwegian migrants to the United States were compared with 17,696 British and 26,155 Norwegian nonmigrants. The highest mortality ratios for 5-year age-adjusted death rates observed were of cigarette smokers to nonsmokers, ranging from 1.40 to 1.60 for men and from 1.18 to 1.36 for women. Mortality ratios of nonmigrants to migrants ranged from 1.07 to 1.19 for men and from 1.22 to 1.36 for women. Mortality ratios for British to Norwegian groups ranged from 1.13 to 1.27. Some differences in mortality ratios for cardiovascular diseases contrasted with mortality ratios for noncardiovascular diseases were noted. The most important of these differences was the apparent lack of any consistent difference between nonmigrants and migrants in their 5-year cardiovascular mortality rates, although there were consistent differences for noncardiovascular diseases.

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Short Survey Norway Random Allocation Cardiovascular Diseases human epidemiology Cigarette Smoking priority journal comparative study geographic distribution Aged Great Britain Epidemiologic Methods United States migrant cardiovascular disease smoking male female fatality Questionnaires adult Sex Factors Age Factors ethnic or racial aspects normal human Emigration and Immigration cardiovascular system mortality Middle Age etiology
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ISSN: 00333549
Original Language: English