Characteristics and Health Service Use of a Longitudinal Cohort of Carers Aged over 45 in Central and Eastern Sydney, Australia

Table 2

Carer status and 8-year mortality from base line: hazard ratio with different models.

Carer	N	Person-year	Death≤8 years of recruitment	Mortality per 1000 PY	Crude model	Adj. model 1	Adj. model 2
No	24845	189601	2601	13.72	1	1	1
Yes	3247	24745	352	14.23	1.04 (0.93, 1.16)	0.97 (0.87, 1.09)	0.98 (0.87, 1.10)

Notes. Adj. model 1 included age and sex only; Adj. model 2 included household income, age at recruitment, sex, and needing help for daily activity variables.