The Mortality of Widows Shortly After Widowhood

Cox, Peter; Ford, JohnR.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(64)92245-7

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“…This basic statistical relationship between widowhood and mortality has been documented by a number of authors including Cox and Ford (1964), Parkes et al (1969), , Kaprio et al (1987), Mendes de Leon et al (1993), Mineau et al (2002), Korenman et al (1997), and Lillard and Waite (1995), just to name a few. Excess mortality among the recently widowed has been demonstrated to exist in a wide variety of age groups, socioeconomic levels, countries and cultures.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 81%

Heightened mortality after the death of a spouse: Marriage protection or marriage selection?

Espinosa

Evans

2008

Journal of Health Economics

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 81%

Heightened mortality after the death of a spouse: Marriage protection or marriage selection?

Espinosa

Evans

2008

Journal of Health Economics

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“…7 Koskenvuo found an excess mortality after widowhood during the first two months,'7 which seemed to be mainly due to ischemic heart disease. Niemi found an increased mortality risk after bereavement during the first six months in a study of 939 men, of whom 174 lost their spouse after retirement. "…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mortality after bereavement: a prospective study of 95,647 widowed persons.

Kaprio¹,

Koskenvuo²,

Rita³

1987

Am J Public Health

340

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The mortality of 95,647 persons, widowed during 1972-76 and identified by linking the Finnish Population Register and cause-of-death files, was followed up to the end of 1976. A total of 7,635 deaths during 225,251 person-years of experience were observed. Cause-specific standardized mortality ratios by time after bereavement were computed. The highest relative mortality risk was found immediately after bereavement. For all natural causes, mortality during the first week was over two-fold compared to expected rates. The relative risk was larger for ischemic heart disease (RR = 2.3 for men, and RR = 3.5 for women), an effect found in all age

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“…Widowhood seems to have a profound effect on physical well-being, espe cially for men (18,38,42,53,59). Parkes et al (54) found that 4486 widowers 55 years of age and older, during the first six months after the death of their wives, experienced a mortality rate 40% above that expected for married men the same age.…”

Section: Marriage: a Special Kind Of Tiementioning

confidence: 99%