Mortality risk among elderly workers.
We analyzed population-based data for respondents aged 70 and older from the Longitudinal Study on Aging. We compared mortality risk among 358 baseline-year working with 4,373 nonworking respondents. Including other demographic and health status predictors in a multiple logistic regression model, employment remained a significant predictor of survival (mortality odds ratio (OR) = 0.4). Diabetes mellitus was the only factor that displayed a mortality risk that was significantly interactive with work (OR = 3.5). These data suggest that a healthy worker effect persists in older age groups, but that within the working stratum, patterns of risk may differ as compared to those among the nonworking.
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Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0924.
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D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003710:Demography; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000401:mortality; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006304:Health Status; D015989:Healthy Worker Effect; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000401:mortality; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors