Moser K A, Fox A J, Goldblatt P O, Jones D R
Postgrad Med J. 1986 Aug;62(730):797-9. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.62.730.797.
The OPCS Longitudinal Study has been used to study both overall and cause-specific mortality patterns in 1971-1981 among men and women directly or indirectly affected by unemployment in April 1971. Groups studied included men seeking work in 1971, the wives of men seeking work in 1971 and other women in the same households as a man seeking work in 1971. The findings of this project are summarized here and attention is focused on mortality from circulatory diseases, in particular ischaemic heart disease. The study provides evidence which could be seen as supporting hypotheses about relationships between stress and overall mortality, with a marked excess for suicides. The evidence with respect to ischaemic heart disease is positive but less convincing with excess mortality from this cause principally occurring among younger unemployed men and among the wives of men who were seeking work in 1971. Given the sharp contrasts in the pattern and levels of unemployment between 1971 and 1981 it is difficult to extrapolate from these findings to the present day.
OPCS纵向研究用于调查1971年4月直接或间接受失业影响的男性和女性在1971 - 1981年间的总体死亡率及死因别死亡率模式。所研究的群体包括1971年求职的男性、1971年求职男性的妻子以及与1971年求职男性同处一户的其他女性。本文总结了该项目的研究结果，并将重点放在循环系统疾病，尤其是缺血性心脏病的死亡率上。该研究提供的证据可被视为支持了关于压力与总体死亡率之间关系的假设，自杀率明显过高。关于缺血性心脏病的证据是正向的，但说服力较弱，因为该病因导致的超额死亡率主要发生在年轻的失业男性以及1971年求职男性的妻子中。鉴于1971年至1981年间失业模式和水平存在显著差异，很难从这些研究结果推断到如今的情况。
