Table 4

Odds ratios for the effects of lowest versus highest socioeconomic status^4-150 at three different stages of life. Values are age adjusted odds ratios (95% CI) and then further adjusted for the other social class indicators (“simultaneous”)

		Men			Women
		Father's social class	First grade		Current grade	Father's social class	First grade	Current grade
CHD
(men: 268 events/3093: women 149/1353)
Age adjusted	1.10 (0.7, 1.8)	1.57 (0.9, 2.7)	1.57 (1.0, 2.4)	1.69 (0.9, 3.2)	7.38 (1.4, 38.2)	2.28 (1.1, 4.6)
Simultaneous	1.00 (0.6, 1.7)	1.24 (0.7, 0.4)	1.44 (0.9, 2.4)	1.30 (0.7, 2.6)	4.10 (0.6, 30.1)	1.38 (0.6, 3.3)

Chronic bronchitis
(men: 191 events/3872: women 91/1729)
Age adjusted	1.17 (0.7, 2.1)	3.13 (1.5, 6.4)	2.59 (1.6, 4.2)	0.47 (0.2, 1.1)	1.16 (0.3, 4.8)	1.89 (0.8, 4.5)
Simultaneous	0.95 (0.5, 1.7)	1.88 (0.8, 4.3)	2.05 (1.2, 3.6)	0.36 (0.2, 0.9)	0.45 (0.1, 2.8)	3.56 (1.1, 11.6)

Depression
(men: 423 events/3131: women 245/1301)
Age adjusted	0.62 (0.4, 0.9)	0.80 (0.5, 1.2)	1.66 (1.2, 2.4)	0.78 (0.5, 1.3)	0.91 (0.4, 2.4)	0.93 (0.6, 1.5)
Simultaneous	0.60 (0.4, 0.9)	0.49 (0.3, 0.8)	2.39 (1.6, 3.6)	0.78 (0.4, 1.4)	1.06 (0.3, 3.7)	0.98 (0.5, 1.9)

↵4-150 Odds ratio estimated from fitting linear trend across six levels for each socioeconomic status measure (see methods).