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Intimations of mortality
— perceived age of leaving middle age as a predictor of future health outcomes within the Whitehall II study | | Author(s) | Hannah Kuper, Michael Marmot |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 32, no 2, March 2003 |
| Pages | pp 178-184 |
| Keywords | Civil servants ; Attitude ; Middle aged ; Health [elderly] ; Heart disease ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The reported age at which middle age ends predicts future health outcomes. The authors hypothesise that perceived end of middle age acts as a general summary of the subjective rate of ageing. 5,262 male and 2,277 female civil servants aged 40-60 in the Whitehall II study were asked in 1991-1993 at what age they think most people leave middle age; participants were followed until 1997-2000. Perceived age of leaving middle age increased with age, self-rated health and grade of employment, and was higher in women. Those who believed middle age ends at under 60, compared to 70+, were at higher risk of coronary heart disease, fatal CHD, and non-fatal myocardial infarction, and poor physical and mental functioning during follow-up. Adjustment of self-rated health, employment grade, health behaviours, social networks, control and baseline health status, respectively, did not eliminate these associations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030425209 A |
| Classmark | XM8: DP: SE: CC: CQH: 3J |
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