How Does Socioeconomic Development Affect Risk of Mortality? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis From a Recently Transitioned Population in China

摘要: During the 20th century, Hong Kong Chinese population experienced 2 abrupt but temporally distinct macroenvironmental changes: The transition from essentially preindustrial living conditions to a rapidly developing economy through mass migration in late 1940s was followed by emergence of an infant and childhood adiposity epidemic 1960s. authors aimed delineate effects these aspects economic development on mortality, thus providing sentinel for other economies. Sex-specific Poisson models were used estimate age, calendar period, birth cohort adult mortality between 1976 2005. All-cause cause-specific including ischemic heart disease (IHD), cardiovascular excluding IHD, lung cancer, cancers, respiratory disease, considered. Male IHD female cancers increased with into more economically developed environment. Cardiovascular after start epidemic, particularly men. Macroenvironmental changes associated had sex-specific over life course, probably originating early life. full health consequences are unlikely manifest until persons who have spent their lives such environments reach age at which they become vulnerable chronic diseases.