Preventive home visits postpone mortality – a controlled trial with time-limited results

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Table 3 Mortality in the intervention group compared with the controls – on treatment

	Year	n	Risk time (year)	Death	Death/1000 years	Incident rate ratio	CI (95%)
All participants
Intervention group	2000–2001	196	385	8	21	1
Control group	2000–2001	346	666	32	48	2,31	1,07–5,02
Intervention group	2002–2004	188	485	32	66	1
Control group	2002–2004	314	831	50	60	0,91	0,59–1,42
Living single
Intervention group	2000–2001	71	141	1	7	1
Control group	2000–2001	187	360	16	44	6,27	0,83–47,26
Cohabitants
Intervention group	2000–2001	125	244	7	29	1
Control group	2000–2001	159	305	16	52	1,89	0,75–4,44
Woman
Intervention group	2000–2001	107	213	2	9	1
Control group	2000–2001	195	377	14	37	3,95	0,89–17,40
Men
Intervention group	2000–2001	89	172	6	35	1
Control group	2000–2001	151	288	18	63	1,79	0,71–4,51

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