Dent O F, Richardson B, Wilson S, Goulston K J, Murdoch C W
Australian National University, Canberra City.
Med J Aust. 1989 Apr 3;150(7):378-82. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb136529.x.
The impact of detention as a prisoner of war on postwar survival and disease-specific mortality was examined in Australian veterans of World War II. A random sample of 908 ex-prisoners and 797 other veterans of the same theatre of war, all of whom had returned to Australia alive, was traced over the 40 years since the war. The date and cause of death were recorded for those who were found to have died. By means of the subject-years method, the mortality of the prisoners of war was compared with that of the non-prisoners of war while the analysis controlled for the length of follow-up and the subject's age at the close of the war. The prisoners of war showed a higher over-all mortality rate than did the non-prisoners of war. This difference was pronounced in the period from five to 14 years after the war but diminished subsequently. There also was an indication that this effect varied with the subject's age at the end of the war: prisoners of war who were aged 25-29 years at that time had the highest mortality differential from non-prisoners of war, followed by prisoners of war who were aged 30-34 years. However, log-linear modelling, which controlled for age and the follow-up period, did not suggest that these mortality differences could be attributed to particular causes of death.
对战后生存及特定疾病死亡率的影响在二战澳大利亚退伍军人中进行了研究，这些军人曾作为战俘被拘留。对908名前战俘和797名来自同一战区的其他退伍军人（他们均活着回到澳大利亚）进行随机抽样，自战争结束后的40年里对其进行追踪。记录了那些被发现已经死亡者的死亡日期和死因。采用人年法，在分析中控制随访时间长度和战争结束时受试者的年龄，将战俘的死亡率与非战俘的死亡率进行比较。战俘的总体死亡率高于非战俘。这种差异在战后5至14年期间较为明显，但随后有所减小。还有迹象表明，这种影响因战争结束时受试者的年龄而异：当时年龄在25至29岁的战俘与非战俘的死亡率差异最大，其次是年龄在30至34岁的战俘。然而，控制了年龄和随访期的对数线性模型并未表明这些死亡率差异可归因于特定死因。
