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Occup Environ Med 57:484-487 doi:10.1136/oem.57.7.484
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Mortality from cancer and chronic respiratory diseases among workers who manufacture carbon electrodes

Table 3

Relative risks (RRs) of death from all causes, all malignant neoplasms, buccal cavity, pharyngeal and laryngeal cancers together, stomach and bladder cancer, and non-neoplastic respiratory diseases for time since first employment with a Poisson regression analysis including age as a covariate

Cause of death by ICD-8 codes Time since first employment (y) p Value test for trend
1–93-151 10–19 20
Deaths (n) RR Deaths (n) RR (95% CI) Deaths (n) RR (95% CI)
All causes (001–999) 92 1 140 1.32 (0.94 to 1.85) 192 1.50 (0.98 to 2.29) 0.08
All malignant neoplasms (140–208) 18 1 45 1.51 (0.75 to 3.07) 62 1.46 (0.64 to 3.33) 0.56
 Buccal cavity, pharynx, and larynx (140–149, 161) 1 1 2 0.62 (0.04 to 9.18) 6 0.79 (0.04 to 17.3) 1.00
 Trachea, bronchus, and lung (162) 7 1 11 1.38 (0.39 to 4.80) 16 2.06 (0.49 to 8.72) 0.28
 Stomach (151) 4 1 9 0.90 (0.18 to 4.46) 7 0.36 (0.04 to 2.9) 0.24
 Bladder (188) 2 1 1 0.43 (0.01 to 11.7) 4 1.73 (0.05 to 59.1) 0.47
Non-malignant respiratory diseases (460–519) 9 1 15 1.25 (0.47 to 3.29) 24 1.96 (0.57 to 6.69) 0.26
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