. 2000 Jun 24;320(7251):1705–1706. doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1705

Table.

Relation of adult mortality (age 65-74 years in 1991-3) with infant mortality at time of birth and at time of death for 27 countries^*

	Infant mortality 1921-3				Infant mortality 1991-3
	Male		Female		Male		Female
	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value	Coefficient	P value
Pearson correlation coefficients:
All causes	0.52	0.005	0.51	0.007	0.58	0.002	0.63	<0.001
Respiratory tuberculosis	0.77	<0.001	0.73	<0.001	0.40	0.04	0.33	0.09
Stomach cancer	0.83	<0.001	0.82	<0.001	0.39	0.04	0.44	0.02
Lung cancer	−0.10	0.61	−0.48	0.01	−0.02	0.91	−0.23	0.24
Coronary heart disease	−0.05	0.81	0.16	0.42	0.13	0.53	0.28	0.16
Stroke	0.66	<0.001	0.63	<0.001	0.61	<0.001	0.64	<0.001
Partial correlation coefficients^†:
All causes	0.32	0.11	0.28	0.17	0.42	0.03	0.50	0.009
Respiratory tuberculosis	0.71	<0.001	0.69	<0.001	0.01	0.96	−0.07	0.72
Stomach cancer	0.80	<0.001	0.77	<0.001	−0.08	0.71	0.04	0.87
Lung cancer	−0.10	0.60	−0.43	0.03	0.04	0.86	0.02	0.92
Coronary heart disease	−0.13	0.52	0.03	0.90	0.18	0.39	0.23	0.27
Stroke	0.51	0.008	0.45	0.02	0.42	0.03	0.48	0.01

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

^†

Sex and cause specific correlations of adult mortality with infant mortality in one period adjusted for infant mortality in the other period.