In comparison to the low and medium education group those with high education had a higher value of the mean number of ideal cardiovascular metrics and ideal health factor metrics.
In comparison to the high education group, participants with medium education were significantly younger, more frequently rural dwellers, inactive or unemployed, with higher level of SBP and DBP (table 1).
In comparison to the high education group, participants with medium education were more frequently current smokers, more frequently had poor levels of diet score and poor or intermediate levels of blood pressures, but were less frequently physically inactive.
Table 1 provides some summary statistics on real monthly wages, hours worked per week, and employment rates of male natives by year (1990 and 2002) and across education groups (high education, medium education, and low education).
"Low" education is the predominant group among women; the most common group among men is "medium" education.> By contrasting "high" and "low" education in the remainder of this article, we deliberately leave out large parts of the population ("medium education").
In all age groups and time periods, the difference in risk was larger between high education compared with medium education in men and women than between medium education compared with low education groups.
Education level was recorded in six groups: no education, vocational, short education (<3 years), medium education (3 4 years), long education (>4 years) and other.
For example, the odds of belonging to the immediate decliners compared to the high baseline cognition group was 10 times lower for those with medium education relative to those with low education after adjusting for sex, occupation, and social engagement odds ratio (OR) 0.1 (95 % CI 0.0, 0.0,.
Education was categorised into three groups as short education (i.e., mandatory education of up to 7 years), medium education (up to 12 years – latest grades of primary school, secondary school, and vocational education), and higher education (>12 years).
The educational levels were categorized into three groups: 1) low education (illiteracy, primary and secondary education, less than 8 9 years schooling), 2) medium education (high school education, 9 12 years schooling) and 3) high education (college or university education, more than 14 years schooling).
