Hazard ratios (95% CI) for cardiovascular mortality by levels of work characteristics in the Valmet study (adjusted for age and sex, and separately for measures of socioeconomic position at study baseline)
| Number of participants (number of deaths) | Adjusted for age and sex | Covariate in addition to age and sex | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father’s occupational group | Height | Education | Occupational group | Income (salary) | |||
| *Low job strain (low demands combined with high or intermediate control), high job strain (high or intermediate demands combined with low control), and intermediate job strain (all other combinations of demands and control). †Tertiles. | |||||||
| Job strain* | |||||||
| Low | 215 (16) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Intermediate | 389 (32) | 1.53 (0.8 to 2.8) | 1.54 (0.8 to 2.9) | 1.49 (0.8 to 2.7) | 1.39 (0.8 to 2.6) | 1.36 (0.7 to 2.6) | 1.51 (0.8 to 2.9) |
| High | 201 (25) | 2.20 (1.2 to 4.2) | 2.22 (1.2 to 4.3) | 2.20 (1.2 to 4.2) | 1.85 (1.0 to 3.6) | 1.89 (0.9 to 3.8) | 2.15 (1.1 to 4.4) |
| Effort-reward imbalance† | |||||||
| Low | 269 (15) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Intermediate | 272 (29) | 2.21 (1.2 to 4.2) | 2.28 (1.2 to 4.4) | 2.09 (1.1 to 4.0) | 1.94 (1.0 to 3.7) | 2.16 (1.0 to 4.5) | 2.35 (1.2 to 4.7) |
| High | 271 (29) | 2.36 (1.3 to 4.4) | 2.44 (1.3 to 4.7) | 2.29 (1.2 to 4.3) | 2.01 (1.0 to 4.0) | 2.40 (1.1 to 5.5) | 2.56 (1.2 to 5.3) |