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Author: Lucas Morin; Jonas W Wastesson; Stefan Fors; Neda Agahi; Kristina Johnell
Title: Spousal bereavement, mortality and risk of negative health outcomes among older adults: a population-based study
  • Document date: 2020_4_19
  • ID: f1br2h6p_20
    Snippet: Bereaved individuals were matched 1:1 by sex and age (1-month bands) to a control group of married older adults sampled from the Total Population Register using the date of spousal loss among the bereaved as index date. Married individuals in the risk set were eligible as controls if they did not experience spousal loss during the 5 years before or during the year after the index date, and if they were not already living in nursing homes at the t.....
    Document: Bereaved individuals were matched 1:1 by sex and age (1-month bands) to a control group of married older adults sampled from the Total Population Register using the date of spousal loss among the bereaved as index date. Married individuals in the risk set were eligible as controls if they did not experience spousal loss during the 5 years before or during the year after the index date, and if they were not already living in nursing homes at the time of cohort entry. Matching was done without replacement, so that each married control was assigned to a single bereaved case.

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