Occupational life tables for cerebrovascular disease and ischemic heart disease in Japan compared with England and Wales.

Abstract

Life tables were calculated for cerebrovascular disease and ischemic heart disease in various occupational groups in Japan, England and Wales. For cerebrovascular disease there are large occupational differences in both countries. The experience of the lowest-ranking Japanese group (administrators and managers) is better than that of the highest-ranking group in England and Wales (miners). For ischemic heart disease, the occupational variations within each country are less. All Japanese groups fare better than any group in England and Wales. Within each country mortality from cerebrovascular disease in different occupations has many positive and significant correlation coefficients with rates for stillbirth and mortality from infections, cancers, etc. Mortality from ischemic heart disease shows relatively less correlation coefficients with other diseases.