Selected characteristics of study participants in the SYNERGYy analysis of painters
| Study participants’ characteristics | Ever painters | Never painters | ||||||
| Cases n=684 | % | Controls n=532 | % | Cases n=18 685 | % | Controls n=23 142 | % | |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Men | 649 | 94.9 | 504 | 94.7 | 14 959 | 80.1 | 18 027 | 77.9 |
| Women | 35 | 5.1 | 28 | 5.3 | 3 726 | 19.9 | 5 115 | 22.1 |
| Age, years | ||||||||
| <45 | 45 | 6.6 | 29 | 5.5 | 758 | 4.1 | 1 456 | 6.3 |
| 45–49 | 52 | 7.6 | 38 | 7.1 | 1 115 | 6 | 1 413 | 6.1 |
| 50–54 | 99 | 14.5 | 68 | 12.8 | 1 915 | 10.3 | 2 254 | 9.7 |
| 55–59 | 125 | 18.3 | 77 | 14.5 | 2 833 | 15.2 | 3 388 | 14.6 |
| 60–64 | 131 | 19.1 | 96 | 18.1 | 3 485 | 18.6 | 4 051 | 17.5 |
| 65–69 | 103 | 15.1 | 108 | 20.3 | 3 892 | 20.8 | 4 818 | 20.8 |
| 70–74 | 100 | 14.6 | 86 | 16.2 | 3 319 | 17.8 | 4 371 | 18.9 |
| 75+ | 29 | 4.2 | 30 | 5.6 | 1 368 | 7.3 | 1 391 | 6 |
| Histological subtype | ||||||||
| SqC | 279 | 40.8 | – | – | 6904 | 36.9 | – | – |
| SCLC | 110 | 16.1 | – | – | 2913 | 15.6 | – | – |
| AC | 176 | 25.7 | – | – | 5462 | 29.2 | – | – |
| LCC | 30 | 4.4 | – | – | 836 | 4.5 | – | – |
| Others* | 89 | 13 | – | – | 2570 | 13.8 | – | – |
| Ever employed in a list A/B job† | ||||||||
| No | 445 | 65.1 | 342 | 64.3 | 12 959 | 69.4 | 17 819 | 77 |
| List A | 53 | 7.7 | 42 | 7.9 | 1 040 | 5.6 | 810 | 3.5 |
| List B | 156 | 22.8 | 133 | 25 | 4 134 | 22.1 | 4 107 | 17.7 |
| List A and List B | 30 | 4.4 | 15 | 2.8 | 552 | 2.9 | 406 | 1.8 |
| Smoking status | ||||||||
| Never smokers | 25 | 3.7 | 99 | 18.6 | 1 429 | 7.6 | 7 681 | 33.2 |
| Former smokers | 160 | 23.4 | 232 | 43.6 | 5 840 | 31.3 | 9 021 | 39 |
| Current smokers | 497 | 72.7 | 199 | 37.4 | 11 377 | 60.9 | 6 371 | 27.5 |
| Unknown/missing | 2 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.4 | 39 | 0.2 | 69 | 0.3 |
| Pack-years cigarette smoking, ever smoker: AM (SD) | 42.53 (25.6) | 28.56 (24.0) | 42.42 (27.9) | 26.25 (23.8) | ||||
| Time since quitting smoking, former smokers: AM (SD) | 12.05 (9.2) | 18.01 (11.7) | 12.99 (10.3) | 20.10 (12.1) | ||||
| Time since quitting smoking, years | ||||||||
| 2–7 | 58 | 8.5 | 39 | 7.3 | 1 850 | 9.9 | 1 341 | 5.8 |
| 8–15 | 39 | 5.7 | 61 | 11.5 | 1 649 | 8.8 | 2 002 | 8.7 |
| 16–25 | 36 | 5.3 | 58 | 10.9 | 1 207 | 6.5 | 2 468 | 10.7 |
| 26–35 | 13 | 1.9 | 42 | 7.9 | 466 | 2.5 | 1 623 | 7 |
| >35 | 2 | 0.3 | 16 | 3 | 216 | 1.2 | 1 062 | 4.6 |
| Missing | 14 | 2 | 18 | 3.4 | 491 | 2.6 | 594 | 2.6 |
| Never smoker | 25 | 3.7 | 99 | 18.6 | 1 429 | 7.6 | 7 681 | 33.2 |
*Others include others, unspecified and missing values.
†Occupation with known (list A) or suspected (list B) association with the risk of lung cancer.
AC, adenocarcinoma; AM, arithmetic mean; LCC, large cell carcinoma; SCLC, small cell lung cancer; SqC, squamous cell carcinoma.