Table 5

Case-control multivariate analysis of personality: Chinese subjects with high scores v those with low score

Variable		Neuroticism				Social conformity
Variable		OR	95% CI			OR	95% CI
Years of painting exposure at the dockyard (vnon-exposure)	1.00			1.00
2–14	4.66	1.38 to 15.75		0.65	0.21 to 2.03
15–18	10.03	2.96 to 34.04		0.34	0.12 to 0.99
19–43	13.56	3.78 to 48.59		0.93	0.39 to 2.20
Sex (womenv men)	1.45	0.67 to 3.15		1.02	0.51 to 2.03
Age (v18–29 years old)	1.00			1.00
30–39	1.29	0.38 to 4.43		1.74	0.57 to 5.30
40–49	0.89	0.30 to 2.69		3.12	1.14 to 8.55
50–59	0.92	0.29 to 2.88		1.42	0.52 to 3.91
60–82	0.62	0.20 to 1.93		1.74	0.64 to 4.76
Education (v no training)	1.00			1.00
Apprenticeship	1.03	0.48 to 2.22		0.85	0.42 to 1.75
Technical college	0.97	0.38 to 2.47		0.89	0.37 to 2.10
Smoking (v 0 cigarettes/day)	1.00			1.00
1–19	0.62	0.26 to 1.48		0.85	0.40 to 1.81
⩾20	1.36	0.52 to 3.55		0.70	0.30 to 1.62
Alcohol intake (v 0 unit/week^5-150)	1.00			1.00
0.5–2.9	1.21	0.44 to 3.30		1.05	0.45 to 2.46
⩾3.0	2.49	1.09 to 5.71		0.98	0.46 to 2.06
Scores of social conformity (v 2–8 scores)	1.00			NA
9	0.40	0.18 to 0.87		NA
10–12	0.50	0.25 to 1.01		NA