Sexual Orientation and All-Cause Mortality Among US Adults Aged 18 to 59 Years, 2001-2011.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303052 and PMC identifier 4985116.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Minority Groups
- Mortality
- Sexuality