The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between mortality from @entity65 ( @entity65 ) and socio-economic status (SES) in Sweden and to estimate to what extent the difference between a province with low mortality and the rest of Sweden was dependent on socio-economic factors. A population-based retrospective study with a historical prospective approach was performed covering a 10-y period in the province of Halland, Sweden, as well as Sweden as a whole. Altogether 1,654,744 @entity1 and 1,592,467 @entity1 were included, of whom 45,394 @entity1 and 43,403 @entity1 were from Halland, distributed according to SES. Multivariate analysis with Poisson regression was used. Relative risks with 95% confidence intervals were calculated. Both @entity1 and @entity1 with a low SES showed a significantly higher risk of @entity204 from @entity65 in Sweden as a whole. The risk was 23% higher for male blue-collar workers and 44% higher for female blue-collar workers when compared to their white-collar counterparts. The level of mortality in Halland was 14% lower compared to the country as a whole when only age was taken into account. When the socio-economic variable was also included, this figure was 8%. The results show the substantial significance of social differences with respect to @entity65 mortality. The effect of SES seems to be more important than that of geographical conditions when the latter are isolated from socio-economic influence.

XXXX focusing on socio-economic influence: the low-risk population of Halland compared to the population of Sweden as a whole.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'men'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death'] @entity65 :: ('MESH:D002318', 'Disease') :: ['CVD', 'cardiovascular diseases']
@entity65 :: (MESH:D002318,Disease) :: ['Cardiovascular mortality']
