Jefferis Barbara J M H, Power Chris, Graham Hilary, Manor Orly
The Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, England.
Am J Public Health. 2004 Feb;94(2):279-85. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.2.279.
We investigated whether socioeconomic circumstances at different life stages influence persistent smoking.
We followed a British birth cohort (all births between March 3 and 9, 1958) for 41 years to examine the influence of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on persistent smoking in adulthood (n = 6541).
Persistent smoking (19% of participants, n = 1216) showed strong social gradients with both childhood and adulthood socioeconomic measures. Among men, the association with childhood socioeconomic circumstances was no longer significant after we adjusted for adulthood socioeconomic circumstances; however, among women, the adjusted odds of persistent smoking increased by 8% for each unit increase across a 16-point childhood score.
Childhood socioeconomic circumstances predicted persistent smoking among women in our cohort, a finding that highlights the importance of influences on the development of persistent smoking across the life course.
我们研究了不同生命阶段的社会经济状况是否会影响持续吸烟情况。
我们对一个英国出生队列(1958年3月3日至9日之间的所有出生者)进行了41年的跟踪研究,以检验儿童期和成年期社会经济地位对成年期持续吸烟的影响(n = 6541)。
持续吸烟者(占参与者的19%,n = 1216)在儿童期和成年期社会经济指标方面均呈现出明显的社会梯度。在男性中,在调整了成年期社会经济状况后,与儿童期社会经济状况的关联不再显著;然而,在女性中,在一个16分的儿童期评分中,每增加一个单位,持续吸烟的调整后比值比就增加8%。
在我们的队列中,儿童期社会经济状况可预测女性的持续吸烟情况,这一发现凸显了在生命历程中影响持续吸烟发展的因素的重要性。