Prevalence ratios and incidence risk ratios for work-related asthma, comparing employment in occupations with high-risk asthma trigger exposures with employment in occupations with low-risk trigger exposures, with attributable risk and population attributable risk*
| Prevalence ratio | Risk ratio | Attributable risk (%) | Population attributable risk (%) | |
| Women | 8.1 (6.1 to 10.7) | 4.1 (2.4 to 7.0) | 25.7 (17.7 to 32.3) | 17.6 (10.8 to 23.9) |
| Men | 6.1 (4.2 to 8.8) | 2.4 (1.5 to 3.7) | 9.7 (0.0 to 18.3) | 7.0 (0.0 to 14.4) |
| African–American | 8.5 (4.7 to 15.6) | 2.2 (1.1 to 4.2) | 23.3 (7.1 to 34.7) | 17.2 (3.4 to 29.0) |
| Hispanic | 8.2 (1.5 to 44.9) | 6.8 (2.1 to 22.1) | 33.7 (11.3 to 47.1) | 23.8 (4.4 to 39.3) |
| White | 5.3 (3.1 to 9.1) | 2.6 (1.5 to 4.4) | 15.3 (0.0 to 27.8) | 10.1 (0.0 to 20.8) |
*Data source: Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968–2015, weighted for national representation and accounting for the survey design; parentheses indicate lower and upper bounds of the 95% CI; results of log-binomial regression accounting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, current and past atopy and smoking, survey design, and sampling weights.