Table 3

Cause specific mortality hazard ratios according to availability of tapped water supply in the childhood home

Cause of death (number of deaths)Indoor private tapped water supply? (number of individuals in category)p Value for difference between groups
Yes: reference
(2217)		No
(627)
All cause(621)unadjusted3-150 1.01.29 (1.01, 1.64)0.04
adjusted3-151 1.01.25 (0.98, 1.61)0.07
CHD(184)unadjusted3-150 1.01.57 (1.03, 2.41)0.03
adjusted3-151 1.01.73 (1.13, 2.64)0.01
Stroke(50)unadjusted3-150 1.00.73 (0.31, 1.75)0.53
adjusted3-151 1.00.83 (0.36, 1.89)0.71
Cancer(197)unadjusted3-150 1.01.00 (0.64, 1.56)1.00
adjusted3-151 1.00.93 (0.60, 1.44)0.73
Cancers not related to smoking(89)unadjusted3-150 1.01.31 (0.68, 2.54)0.40
adjusted3-151 1.01.20 (0.63, 2.27)0.58
Lung cancer(62)unadjusted3-150 1.01.02 (0.54, 1.93)0.96
adjusted3-151 1.00.96 (0.50, 1.84)0.91

  • ↵3-150 All models were stratified by sex and district, and robust standard errors calculated to account for clustering within families.

  • ↵3-151 Adjusted for year of birth, income, food expenditure, childhood social class, and adult Townsend score.