The fitted difference in 1-year survival between men in the most affluent and most deprived groups who were diagnosed during 1996 1999 was 3.4%.
The estimation of the deprivation gap in survival (the fitted difference in survival between the most affluent and most deprived groups) was dependent on the assumptions made regarding the deprivation gradient in background mortality.
For all patients combined, the fitted difference in survival between the most affluent and most deprived groups was −3.2% 1 year after diagnosis and −1.7% after 5 years; neither result was statistically significant (Table 2, Figure 2).
The fitted difference in relative survival at 5 years between the most affluent and the most deprived groups (the deprivation gap) widened from −3% for those diagnosed in 1986–1990 to −6% for those diagnosed during 1996 1999, a statistically significant change of about −2% every 5 years (Table 2, Figure 2).
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We use OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation anData, World Development IndicatorsDevelopmenthendicators, the World Values Survey, and the European Values Study to fit a difference-in-differences model that removes unobserved cross-national heterogeneity and any period trend that is shared across nations.
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The test for non-linearity based on a comparison of linear and linear-quadratic dose-response models was not statistically significant (P=0.17), but the pure quadratic model, which suggests relatively little risk at lower doses, nominally provided a slightly better fit (difference in Akaike information criterion statistics of 1.87) than did the linear model.
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