Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study

An editorial and an authors' error occurred in this paper by George Davey Smith and colleagues (22 February, pp 547-52). In the abstract the penultimate sentence of the results paragraph should have read: “Fathers having a manual [not non-manual, as published] occupation was strongly associated with mortality from cardiovascular disease: relative rate 1.41 (1.15 to 1.72).” The legend of table 3) should have read: “Age adjusted death rates (per 10 000 person years [not 1000 person years, as published]) over 21 years of follow up according to cumulative social class.”