Non-malignant respiratory disease (excluding influenza and pneumonia) matched, ORs (95% CIs) from conditional logistic regression analysis adjusted for sociodemographic and cumulative exposure-days (observations (n=68), informative strata (n=19))
| OR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|
| Subject characteristics: | |
| Education (y): | |
| ≥12 | 1.000 |
| 8–11 | 0.59 (0.00 to 7.57) |
| <8 | 0.29 (0.03 to 1.56) |
| Marital status: | |
| Married | 1.000 |
| Widowed, divorced, separated | 2.14 (0.41 to 15.32) |
| Never married | 1.75 (0.04 to + Inf) |
| Smoking (cigarettes): | |
| Never smoked | 1.000 |
| Smoked for 6 months or more | 1.88 (0.24 to + Inf) |
| Cumulative exposure days (concentration×days of exposure) | |
| Respirable fibres (fibres/ml): | |
| <100 | 1.000 |
| 100–299.99 | 0.63 (0.01 to 19.37) |
| ≥300 (max=687.7) | 0.49 (0.01 to 14.19) |
| Talc (fibres/ml): | |
| 0 | 1.000 |
| >0 (max=66.7) | 1.31 (0.19 to 17.76) |
| Respirable silica (mg/m3): | |
| 0 | 1.000 |
| 0.03–0.999 | 1.01 (0.00 to 15.85) |
| 1–9.9 | 1.71 (0.06 to 148.77) |
| 10–99.9 | 3.96 (0.14 to 431.06) |
| ≥100 (max=6664.8) | 1.77 (0.03 to 183.11) |