Selected cause specific mortality among UK industrial silica sand workers
| Cause of death | Men | Women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observed | Expected | SMR (95% CI) | Observed | Expected | SMR (95% CI) | |
| All causes | 727 | 807.8 | 90.0 (83.6 to 96.8) | 37 | 52.9 | 70.0 (49.3 to 96.4) |
| All circulatory diseases | 334 | 372.8 | 89.6 (80.3 to 99.8) | 17 | 20.7 | 82.2 (47.9 to 132.0) |
| Ischaemic heart disease | 231 | 247.3 | 93.4 (81.7 to 106.3) | 7 | 10.5 | 66.8 (26.8 to 137.6) |
| Other heart disease | 103 | 125.5 | 82.1 (67.0 to 99.5) | 10 | 10.2 | 98.0 (47.0 to 180.0) |
| All respiratory diseases | 88 | 96.9 | 90.8 (72.8 to 112.0) | 3 | 5.8 | 51.6 (10.6 to 151.0) |
| COPD | 21 | 26.1 | 80.6 (49.9 to 123.2) | |||
| Pneumoconiosis | 2 | 1.4 | 148.2 (17.9 to 535.4) | |||
| Other respiratory | 65 | 68.2 | 95.3 (73.6 to 121.0) | 3 | 5.1 | 58.8 (12.1 to 172.0) |
| All genitourinary diseases | 9 | 9.1 | 98.6 (45.1 to 187.2) | |||
| All cancers | 203 | 221.6 | 91.6 (79.5 to 105.1) | 15 | 17.1 | 87.7 (49.1 to 144.7) |
| Gastrointestinal cancer | 50 | 65.7 | 76.1 (56.5 to 100.3) | 2 | 4.1 | 49.4 (6.0 to 178.3) |
| Oesophagus | 11 | 9.2 | 119.4 (29.6 to 213.7) | 1 | 0.4 | 230.7 (5.8 to 1285.3) |
| Stomach | 18 | 17.7 | 101.6 (60.2 to 160.6) | 0.7 | ||
| Large intestine | 16 | 14.8 | 107.9 (61.7 to 175.2) | 1.3 | ||
| Rectum | 5 | 9.6 | 52.0 (16.9 to 121.3) | 1 | 0.5 | 187.4 (4.7 to 1044.0) |
| Pancreas | 2 | 9.3 | 21.6 (2.6 to 78.0) | |||
| Lung | 77 | 77.7 | 99.0 (78.2 to 123.8) | 4 | 2.8 | 145.2 (39.6 to 371.8) |
| Breast | 4 | 3.9 | 101.8 (27.7 to 260.7) | |||
| Genitourinary | 34 | 31.0 | 109.7 (76.0 to 153.3) | 2 | 2.9 | 69.8 (8.4 to 252.1) |
| Prostate | 16 | 16.8 | 95.3 (54.5 to 154.8) | |||
| Bladder | 14 | 8.5 | 164.7 (90.0 to 276.4) | |||
| Kidney | 4 | 4.8 | 84.0 (22.9 to 215.2) | |||
| Brain | 4 | 5.6 | 71.0 (19.3 to 181.7) | |||
| Lymphohaematopoietic | 14 | 14.9 | 93.7 (51.2 to 157.2) | 2 | 1.1 | 178.2 (21.6 to 643.7) |
| Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 4 | 5.4 | 74.7 (20.4 to 191.3) | 2 | 0.4 | 483.3 (58.5 to 1745.7) |
| Multiple myeloma | 6 | 2.9 | 208.3 (76.4 to 453.3) | |||
| Leukaemia | 4 | 5.5 | 73.0 (19.9 to 186.9) | |||