Changes in educational inequalities in knee and hip osteoarthritis surgery and non-surgery specialist care visits over time in Sweden.

Objective: To examine changes in prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in knee and hip OA outcomes, in more specific surgery and non-surgery specialist care visits, from 2001 to 2011 in Sweden and to what extent sociodemographic factors can explain the changes.

Design: We included all individuals aged ≥35 years resident in Sweden from 2001 to 2011. Individual-level data was retrieved from the Swedish Interdisciplinary Panel.

Does lower educational attainment increase the risk of osteoarthritis surgery? a Swedish twin study.

Background: Previous studies have reported an inverse association between educational attainment and different osteoarthritis (OA) outcomes. However, none of the previous studies have accounted for potential confounding by early-life environment and genetics. Thus, we aimed to examine the association between educational attainment and knee and hip OA surgery using twin data.

Socioeconomic Inequalities in All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Patients With Osteoarthritis in the Skåne Region of Sweden.

Objective: To assess the association between education and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among patients with osteoarthritis (OA) in comparison to an OA-free reference cohort.

Methods: Using data from the Skåne Healthcare Register, we identified all residents age ≥45 years in the region of Skåne in southern Sweden with doctor-diagnosed OA of peripheral joints between 1998 and 2013 (n = 123,993). We created an age- and sex-matched reference cohort without OA diagnosis (n = 121,318).

Educational inequalities in fracture-related mortality using multiple cause of death data in the Skåne region, Sweden.

To assess the absolute and relative educational inequalities in mortality from hip and non-hip fractures in Skåne region, Sweden. : We conducted a population-based open cohort study. People aged 30-99 years, resident in the region during 1998-2013 ( = 999, 148) were followed until death, their 100 birthday, relocation outside Skåne, or the end of 2014.