Sexual orientation and all-cause mortality among US adults aged 18 to 59 years, 2001-2011

S.D. Cochran, C. Björkenstam and V.M. Mays

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 5, 918-920

Abstract: To determine whether sexual minorities have an earlier mortality than do heterosexuals, we investigated associations between sexual orientation assessed in the 2001 to 2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and mortality in the 2011 NHANES-linked mortality file. Mortality follow-up time averaged 69.6 months after NHANES. By 2011, 338 individuals had died. Sexual minorities evidenced greater all-cause mortality than did heterosexuals after adjusting for demographic confounding. These effects generally disappeared with further adjustment for NHANES-detected health and behavioral differences.

Keywords: adult; follow up; heterosexuality; human; major clinical study; mortality; nutrition; public health; sexual minority; sexual orientation; adolescent; age; epidemiology; female; health survey; male; middle aged; minority group; sex difference; sexuality; socioeconomics; statistics and numerical data; United States; young adult, Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Female; Health Surveys; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Minority Groups; Mortality; Sex Factors; Sexuality; Socioeconomic Factors; United States; Young Adult (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303052

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