Impact of social inequalities at birth on the longevity of children born 1914-1916: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Testing whether familial socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood is a predictor of mortality has rarely been done on historical cohorts.

Methods

The birth certificates of 4,805 individuals born 1914-1916 in 16 districts of the Paris region were retrieved. The handwritten information provided the occupation of parents, the legitimacy status, life events (e.g. marriage, divorce), and the precise date of death when after 1945 (i.e. age 31 years (y) in the cohort). We used the median age at death (MAD) as a global measure of mortality, then studied separately survival to and after 31 y. Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE), Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) and mixed effect Cox models were used.

Results

MAD showed large variations according to p

SUBMITTER: Todd N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5643053 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature