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Risk Factors for Mortality in the Nurses’ Health Study: A Competing Risks Analysis

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Baer, Heather J., Glynn, Robert J., Hu, Frank B., Hankinson, Susan E., Willett, Walter C., Colditz, Graham A., Stampfer, Meir, Rosner, Bernard·2011·American Journal of Epidemiology
DOI 10.1093/aje/kwq368PMC PMC3105270
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Few studies have examined multiple risk factors for mortality or formally compared their associations across specific causes of death. The authors used competing risks survival analysis to evaluate associations of lifestyle and dietary factors with all-cause and cause-specific mortality among 50,112 participants in the Nurses' Health Study. There were 4,893 deaths between 1986 and 2004: 1,026 from cardiovascular disease, 931 from smoking-related cancers, 1,430 from cancers not related to smoking, and 1,506 from all other causes. Age, body mass index at age 18 years, weight change, height, current smoking and pack-years of smoking, glycemic load, cholesterol intake, systolic blood pressure and use of blood pressure medications, diabetes, parental myocardial infarction before age 60 years, and time since menopause were directly related to all-cause mortality, whereas there were inverse associations for physical activity and intakes of nuts, polyunsaturated fat, and cereal fiber. Moderate alcohol consumption was associated with decreased mortality. A model that incorporated differences in the associations of some risk factors with specific causes of death had a significantly better fit compared with a model in which all risk factors had common associations across all causes. In the future, this new model may be used to identify individuals at increased risk of mortality.

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Authors
Baer, H. J., Glynn, R. J., Hu, F. B., Hankinson, S. E., Willett, W. C., Colditz, G. A., Stampfer, M., & Rosner, B.
Affiliations
Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Baer, Heather J.
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Venue
American Journal of Epidemiology
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2010-12-06
Volume
173
Issue
3
Pages
319-329
ISSN
  • 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-6256
DOI
10.1093/aje/kwq368
PMC
PMC3105270
OpenAlex
W2103592177
Cited by
153
References
43
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FWCI
7.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (P01CA087969, [P01 CA87969)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Risks and Factors
Keywords
mortality risk factors, competing risks, cause-specific mortality, all-cause mortality, lifestyle factors, dietary factors, cardiovascular mortality, tobacco-related cancer, body mass index, weight change, glycemic load, cholesterol intake, blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, menopause, physical activity, nuts, polyunsaturated fat, cereal fiber, alcohol consumption, Nurses' Health Study
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Cause of Death, Chronic Disease, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Life Style, Middle Aged, Mortality, Nurses, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Smoking, United States, Health Behavior, Proportional Hazards Models, Risk Assessment, Young Adult

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