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Social inequalities in tobacco-attributable mortality in Spain. The intersection between age, sex and educational level

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  • Mariana Haeberer
  • Inmaculada León-Gómez
  • Beatriz Pérez-Gómez
  • María Téllez-Plaza
  • Mónica Pérez-Ríos
  • Anna Schiaffino
  • Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
  • Iñaki Galán

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Introduction: First study of social inequalities in tobacco-attributable mortality (TAM) in Spain considering the joint influence of sex, age, and education (intersectional perspective). Methods: Data on all deaths due to cancer, cardiometabolic and respiratory diseases among people aged ≥35 years in 2016 were obtained from the Spanish Statistical Office. TAM was calculated based on sex-, age- and education-specific smoking prevalence, and on sex-, age- and disease-specific relative risks of death for former and current smokers vs lifetime non-smokers. As inequality measures, the relative index of inequality (RII) and the slope index of inequality (SII) were calculated using Poisson regression. The RII is interpreted as the relative risk of mortality between the lowest and the highest educational level, and the SII as the absolute difference in mortality. Results: The crude TAM rate was 55 and 334 per 100,000 in women and men, respectively. Half of these deaths occurred among people with the lowest educational level (27% of the population). The RII for total mortality was 0.39 (95%CI: 0.35–0.42) in women and 1.61 (95%CI: 1.55–1.67) in men. The SII was -41 and 111 deaths per 100,000, respectively. Less-educated women aged

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  • Mariana Haeberer & Inmaculada León-Gómez & Beatriz Pérez-Gómez & María Téllez-Plaza & Mónica Pérez-Ríos & Anna Schiaffino & Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo & Iñaki Galán, 2020. "Social inequalities in tobacco-attributable mortality in Spain. The intersection between age, sex and educational level," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(9), pages 1-16, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0239866
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239866
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