Gender-specific, age-standardised prevalences for unfavourable self-reported health cardiovascular-disease risk factors in four Scottish Health Surveys 1995, 1998, 2003 and 2008 stratified by occupational social class
| Men | Slope (p value) | Women | Slope (p value) | |||||||
| Proportion (%) (95% CI)* | Proportion (%) (95% CI)* | |||||||||
| 1995 | 1998 | 2003 | 2008 | 1995 | 1998 | 2003 | 2008 | |||
| Diabetes | ||||||||||
| All | 2.0 (1.5 to 2.5) | 2.6 (2.1 to 3.2) | 2.8 (2.2 to 3.5) | 3.6 (2.9 to 4.4) | 0.12 (0.03) | 1.6 (1.2 to 2.1) | 1.6 (1.1 to 2.0) | 2.1 (1.6 to 2.6) | 2.8 (2.1 to 3.5) | 0.10 (0.046) |
| I Professional | 0.5 (0 to 1.3) | 0.6 (0 to 1.6) | 0.5 (0 to 1.5) | 2.4 (0.2 to 4.7) | 0.14 (0.18) | 0.5 (0 to 1.8) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 (0 to 6.9) | 0.16 (0.28) |
| II Managerial | 1.4 (0.5 to 2.2) | 2.4 (1.3 to 3.4) | 2.2 (1.2 to 3.2) | 2.6 (1.4 to 3.8) | 0.07 (0.21) | 1.4 (0.6 to 2.3) | 0.9 (0.2 to 1.6) | 2.0 (1.0 to 2.9) | 1.9 (0.9 to 2.9) | 0.06 (0.31) |
| III Skilled NM | 2.4 (0.4 to 4.3) | 3.0 (0.9 to 5.1) | 3.4 (1.2 to 5.6) | 4.3 (1.5 to 7.1) | 0.14 (0.02) | 1.4 (0.6 to 2.1) | 1.7 (0.9 to 2.5) | 1.6 (0.8 to 2.5) | 2.6 (1.4 to 3.8) | 0.08 (0.10) |
| III Skilled M | 2.8 (1.8 to 3.7) | 3.2 (2.2 to 4.2) | 2.8 (1.7 to 3.9) | 4.2 (2.8 to 5.6) | 0.09 (0.22) | 1.7 (0.2 to 3.2) | 1.0 (0 to 2.3) | 4.4 (1.8 to 7.1) | 4.5 (1.5 to 7.4) | 0.27 (0.13) |
| IV Partly skilled | 1.6 (0.4 to 2.8) | 2.3 (1.0 to 3.7) | 4.3 (2.4 to 6.2) | 3.0 (1.2 to 4.8) | 0.13 (0.33) | 2.4 (1.1 to 3.8) | 2.2 (1.0 to 3.4) | 2.5 (1.1 to 3.8) | 4.3 (2.4 to 6.3) | 0.14 (0.17) |
| V Unskilled | 1.8 (0 to 4.2) | 3.1 (0.4 to 5.9) | 5.4 (0.9 to 10.0) | 6.3 (2.7 to 10.0) | 0.36 (0.02) | 1.5 (0.4 to 2.6) | 1.8 (0.6 to 3.1) | 1.7 (0.3 to 3.0) | 1.5 (0 to 3.0) | −0.01 (0.6) |
| SII (p value) | 1.3 (0.32) | 1.3 (0.29) | 3.6 (0.02) | 2.3 (0.18) | 0.12 (0.37) | 1.0 (0.18) | 1.6 (0.06) | 1.2 (0.43) | 2.2 (0.2) | 0.08 (0.21) |
| Hypertension | ||||||||||
| All | 16.9 (15.6 to 18.2) | 16.8 (15.5 to 18.1) | 18.2 (16.8 to 19.6) | 21.2 (19.5 to 22.9) | 0.34 (0.06) | 16.3 (15.1 to 17.6) | 15.9 (14.6 to 17.1) | 17.5 (16.1 to 18.9) | 18.5 (16.9 to 20.1) | 0.19 (0.07) |
| I Professional | 8.7 (5.0 to 12.5) | 10.0 (5.9 to 14.1) | 12.4 (8.3 to 16.5) | 13.7 (8.7 to 18.8) | 0.40 (0.008) | 16.9 (8.0 to 25.7) | 3.1 (0 to 7.2) | 12.4 (4.7 to 20.2) | 14.7 (6.9 to 22.6) | 0.18 (0.83) |
| II Managerial | 15.4 (12.9 to 17.9) | 16.6 (14.1 to 19.1) | 15.8 (13.4 to 18.3) | 19.5 (16.3 to 22.6) | 0.26 (0.18) | 13.1 (10.7 to 15.5) | 13.5 (11.1 to 15.8) | 16.3 (13.9 to 18.7) | 14.6 (12.1 to 17.1) | 0.16 (0.36) |
| III Skilled NM | 13.2 (9.2 to 17.3) | 16.0 (11.8 to 20.3) | 22.9 (17.9 to 27.8) | 25.5 (19.8 to 31.3) | 0.99 (0.02) | 16.6 (14.3 to 18.8) | 15.7 (13.5 to 17.8) | 16.5 (14.0 to 18.9) | 20.6 (17.6 to 23.6) | 0.31 (0.19) |
| III Skilled M | 19.2 (16.9 to 21.4) | 16.8 (14.6 to 18.9) | 17.9 (15.3 to 20.4) | 22.1 (19.2 to 25.1) | 0.26 (0.36) | 21.0 (16.3 to 25.8) | 15.8 (11.6 to 20.1) | 22.7 (17.2 to 28.1) | 23.0 (16.5 to 29.4) | 0.33 (0.43) |
| IV Partly skilled | 20.6 (16.9 to 24.2) | 18.6 (15.2 to 21.9) | 20.5 (16.6 to 24.4) | 21.7 (17.6 to 25.8) | 0.14 (0.38) | 16.6 (13.5 to 19.8) | 16.6 (13.7 to 19.4) | 19.9 (16.6 to 23.3) | 20.2 (16.5 to 23.8) | 0.32 (0.08) |
| V Unskilled | 13.5 (7.8 to 19.1) | 23.4 (16.7 to 30.1) | 31.0 (22.9 to 39.1) | 22.1 (15.4 to 28.9) | 0.67 (0.47) | 18.9 (15.0 to 22.7) | 24.4 (19.6 to 29.2) | 19.1 (13.4 to 24.8) | 16.4 (10.9 to 21.9) | −0.34 (0.43) |
| SII (p value) | 8.4 (0.12) | 6.5 (0.09) | 10.1 (0.11) | 6.2 (0.21) | −0.07 (0.78) | 6.2 (0.09) | 10.1 (0.06) | 6.3 (0.07) | 7.7 (0.12) | −0.01 (0.97) |
Diabetes, self-reported doctor-diagnosed diabetes; hypertension, self-reported doctor-diagnosed hypertension; M, manual; NM, non-manual; SII, slope index of inequality.
* Negative lower limits have been set to zero.