Data (n (%)) description of the non-malignant respiratory diseases case-control study
| France | Austria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Controls | Cases | Controls | ||
| *Percentage among subjects with known smoking habits; †as defined in the text; ‡smoker without further information; §in France subjects with a history of underground mining in other mines (two cases and five controls), or tunnelling (one case and two controls), in Austria underground talc mining (the case and the control are from site B). | |||||
| Administrative information: | |||||
| Started employment | <1930 | 15 (38) | 29 (25) | — | — |
| 1930–1949 | 16 (41) | 46 (40) | 1 (100) | 2 (67) | |
| ≥1950 | 8 (21) | 41 (35) | — | 1 (33) | |
| Smoking information: | |||||
| Missing information | 3 (8) | 22 (19) | 1 (100) | 3 (100) | |
| Data source* | Previous documents | 23 (64) | 53 (55) | — | — |
| Colleagues | 13 (36) | 43 (45) | — | — | |
| Classification*† | Non-smoker | 16 (44) | 40 (43) | — | — |
| Light smoker | 6 (17) | 16 (17) | — | — | |
| Heavy smoker | 14 (39) | 24 (26) | — | — | |
| Smoker‡ | — | 14 (15) | — | — | |
| Occupational exposure: | |||||
| Missing job history | 4 (3) | — | — | ||
| Data source | Previous documents | 37 (95) | 99 (85) | 1 (100) | 3 (100) |
| Colleagues | 2 (5) | 13 (11) | — | — | |
| Employed as | Manual worker | 37 (95) | 100 (89) | 1 (100) | 2 (66) |
| Office worker | 2 (5) | 8 (7) | — | 1 (33) | |
| Manager | — | 4 (4) | — | — | |
| Talc exposure | None | 6 (15) | 26 (22) | — | 1 (33) |
| Light | — | 12 (10 ) | — | ||
| Medium | 6 (15) | 22 (19) | — | 1 (33) | |
| Heavy | 27 (69) | 56 (48) | 1 (100) | 1 (33) | |
| Other exposures | Quartz† | 1 (3) | 2 (2) | 1 (100) | 1 (33) |
| Underground work§ | 3 (8) | 7 (6) | 1 (100) | 1 (33) | |
| Total | 39 | 116 | 1 | 3 | |