For Pakistani men, there was a slight attenuation of risk on education adjustment (from 168.2 to 162.2), whereas in Pakistani women, 20% of the excess was attenuated (from 162.2 to 143.1).
Although the point estimates did change to some extent, for example when adjusting for level of education, these adjustments did not indicate any relationship between parity and total mortality.
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This was only partly explained by levels of deprivation and education; further adjustment for these factors only reduced the OR to 1.62 (95%% CI 1.14 2.30).
Of the four types of tobacco use, bidi smoking had the strongest association with education after adjustment for wealth and occupation (Table 2).
A decreased risk of type 2 diabetes associated with high levels of education, before adjustment for BMI and lifestyle, was also seen in both cohorts (HR 0.66 [95% CI 0.49 0.91] and 0.75 [0.59–0.96], respectively).
In addition, through linkage to various databases including California birth certificate data and the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Alpha-Fetoprotein Prenatal Screening Program, wereere able to obtain additional variables (such as maternal pre-existing diabetes, pregnancy weight, age, ethnicity, education) for adjustment as potential confounders.
The loss of a parent is a difficult thing for a child to go through, but in terms of the long-term risk to the child's survival, development, education and adjustment, what is important is where the child finds him-or herself before (for example, see Gray et al., 2006) and after the parent's death.
There is a growing body of published and unpublished literature comparing the living circumstances, health and nutrition, education and adjustment of orphaned and non-orphaned children and drawing attention to the situation of children heading households, especially in southern Africa (Bishai et al., 2003; Case, Paxson, & Ableidinger, 2004).
