Table 2

Hazard ratios for mortality and age and gender standardised prevalence rates by level of education of material, behavioural, and psychosocial explanatory factors

	HR	95%CI	Level of education				p Value
	HR	95%CI	lowest	low	higher	highest	p Value
Hazard ratios (HR) were corrected for age, gender, and level of education. Hazard ratios and percentages were weighted to make the sample representative for the original GLOBE respondents. The number of respondents varies because the number of missing values on the individual risk factors varied. p Values are for trend test by level of education.
Material factors
Health insurance (n = 4069)
Public	2.12	1.40 to 3.21	87	67	47	25	<0.0001
Private	1.00		13	33	53	75	<0.0001
Financial difficulties (n = 4007)
Big difficulties	3.02	1.57 to 5.81	7	3	3	2	<0.0001
Small difficulties	1.28	0.83 to 1.97	25	16	12	9	<0.0001
No difficulties	1.00		69	81	85	90	<0.0001
Housing tenure (n = 4065)
Rented house	1.47	1.03 to 2.10	67	46	31	31	<0.0001
Owned house	1.00		33	54	69	69	<0.0001
Behavioural factors
Smoking (n = 4056)
Smoker	2.32	1.44 to 3.73	44	39	32	27	<0.0001
Former smoker	1.19	0.71 to 2.00	22	30	35	32	<0.0001
Never smoker	1.00		34	31	33	42	0.0006
Physical activity (n = 4007)
Inactive	3.14	1.77 to 5.60	16	14	13	9	0.0009
Moderately active	2.14	1.29 to 3.53	60	51	45	48	<0.0001
Active	1.00		24	34	42	42	<0.0001
Psychosocial factors
Life events (n = 4046)
0	1.00		47	57	54	50	0.60
1	1.62	1.12 to 2.35	33	27	30	32	0.66
2	1.67	1.00 to 2.79	14	12	12	14	0.81
⩾3	2.66	1.32 to 5.35	6	4	4	3	0.007
Locus of control (n = 4016)
Internal locus of control (q1)	1.00		7	14	23	40	<0.0001
2nd quintile	1.83	0.83 to 4.02	14	21	26	28	<0.0001
3rd quintile	1.65	0.73 to 3.70	13	17	19	15	0.25
4th quintile	1.49	0.68 to 3.26	26	24	19	11	<0.0001
External locus of control (q5)	2.19	1.03 to 4.70	39	25	13	5	<0.0001