Biometrics
Volume 38, Issue supplement, 1982, Pages 55-74

The British- Norwegian migrant study - analysis of parameters of mortality differentials associated with angina. (Article)

Feinleib M. , Lambert P.M. , Zeiner-Henriksen T. , Rogot E. , Hunt B.M. , Ingster-Moore L. , Haenszel W.D.
  • a Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.
  • b Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.
  • c Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.
  • d Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.
  • e Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.
  • f Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.
  • g Epidemiology & Biometry Prog., Div. of Heart & Vascular Diseases, Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Inst., Bethesda, Maryland 20205, U.S.A.

Abstract

The prevalence of selected cardiorespiratory symptoms was ascertained by a common mail questionnaire for 73 884 men and women in the US, Great Britain and Norway. The study groups were identified in the early 1960's and included 30 033 British and Norwegian migrants to the US and 43 851 non-migrants who resided in Great Britain and Norway. The main study objectives were to contrast the morbidity and mortality experience of the migrant and non-migrant groups in the light of known national differences in mortality from cardiorespiratory diseases in the early 1960's. At that time, the US had the highest death rates from coronary heart disease while Great Britain had the highest rates for lung cancer and for chronic non-specific lung disease. Norway had the lowest rates for all three rubrics.-from Authors

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Norway risk human epidemiology Aged Great Britain Epidemiologic Methods ethnology United States male female questionnaire Article Questionnaires adult migration Angina Pectoris United Kingdom Transients and Migrants Angina mortality Middle Age
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ISSN: 0006341X
Cited by: 22
Original Language: English