Description of the included sample and age-adjusted associations between education and cardiovascular mortality in Brazil, 2010
| n (n=62 568 055) | Number of deaths in 2010* | Crude mortality rate per 100 000 | Age-adjusted rate ratio for <8 versus 8+ years education (95% CI) | |||||||
| CVD | IHD | Stroke | CVD | IHD | Stroke | CVD | IHD | Stroke | ||
| Women | ||||||||||
| All | 32 899 916 | 89 392 | 23 692 | 25 526 | 271.7 | 72.0 | 77.6 | |||
| 8+ years’ education | 20 615 737 | 14 443 | 4564 | 3906 | 70.1 | 22.1 | 18.9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| <8 years’ education | 12 284 179 | 74 949 | 19 128 | 21 619 | 610.1 | 155.7 | 176.0 | 2.93 (2.85 to 3.01) | 2.54 (2.45 to 2.64) | 3.02 (2.88 to 3.17) |
| Men | ||||||||||
| All | 29 668 139 | 95 991 | 31 876 | 25 322 | 323.5 | 107.4 | 85.4 | |||
| 8+ years’ education | 17 999 163 | 21 921 | 9058 | 4894 | 121.8 | 50.3 | 27.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| <8 years’ education | 11 668 976 | 74 070 | 22 818 | 20 427 | 634.8 | 195.5 | 175.1 | 2.21 (2.17 to 2.25) | 1.78 (1.72 to 1.84) | 2.63 (2.53 to 2.73) |
*Death numbers are averaged across the five imputed datasets.
CVD, cardiovascular disease; IHD, ischaemic heart disease.