Sexual orientation and all-cause mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

• Main Authors: Martin Lindström, Maria Rosvall
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
• Series: Public Health in Practice
• Subjects: Sexual orientation; LGBT; Bisexual; Homosexual; Mortality; Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666535220300318

Objectives: To investigate associations between sexual orientation and all-cause mortality. Study design: Prospective cohort study. Methods: The 2008 public health survey in Scania was conducted with a postal questionnaire later linked to 9.3-year prospective death register data, including 25,071 respondents, aged 18–80. Analyses were conducted with sex-stratified survival analyses. Results: In the models including age, birth country and socioeconomic status, bisexual men had a hazard rate ratio (HRR) 1.91 (1.10–3.30) compared to heterosexual men, and bisexual women had a HRR 3.18 (1.64–6.18). No significant differences were observed for homosexuals. Other women had a HRR 2.32 (1.47–3.67). Conclusions: Bisexuals men and women had higher mortality than heterosexuals.