title: Life-style and self-rated global health in Sweden: a prospective analysis spanning three decades.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the relations between lifestyle factors (smoking, drinking, exercise, vegetable consumption, social relations) and global self-rated health in the adult Swedish population.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data come from the Swedish Level of Living Survey, a face-to-face panel study. The analysis follows the respondents with good health in 1991 (N=4035) and uses multivariate logistic regression to assess the relations between lifestyle factors in 1991 and health in 2000 and 2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Baseline (1991) exercise, social support, smoking and vegetable consumption are associated with health in 2000 and/or 2010. 2000: Weekly exercise in 1991 increases the probability of good health by 6 percentage points [95% CI: 1-10] compared to no exercise, and smoking 10 or more cigarettes a day decreases the probability of good health by 5 percentage points [95% CI 1-8]. Lacking social support decreases the probability of good health by 17 percentage points (95% CI: 9-25). 2010: Smoking 10 or more cigarettes a day decreases the probability of good health by 10 percentage points [95% CI 5-15], and eating vegetables every day increases the probability of good health by 4 percentage points [95% CI 0.2-7].
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Exercise, smoking, social support and vegetable consumption are related to self-rated health 2000 and/or 2010.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden. Electronic address: carina.mood@iffs.se.
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mood
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects; D004032:Diet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015444:Exercise; D015438:Health Behavior; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D012919:Social Behavior; D012944:Social Support; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Behavioural risk factor surveillance system; Health status; Logistic model; Longitudinal study; Self-report