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Table 2 Associations between occupational classes and chronic respiratory disease

From: Occupational status and chronic respiratory diseases: a cross-sectional study based on the data of the Rafsanjan Cohort Study

 

Crude model

Adjusted model 1

Adjusted model 2

AOR (95%Ci)a

P -value

AOR(95%Ci)b

P -value

AOR (95%Ci)c

P -value

Occupational classes I

 Employment

1

-

1

-

1

-

 Homemaker and Unemployment

1.58(1.03-2.43)

0.037

1.25(0.73-2.15)

0.411

1.23(0.71-2.11)

0.457

 Retired

1.70(1.01-2.84)

0.045

1.35(0.78-2.33)

0.288

1.34(0.77-2.34)

0.295

 Self-employment

1.08(0.68-1.70)

0.743

1.00(0.61-1.59)

0.963

1.02(0.63-1.66)

0.926

Occupational classes II

 Other

1

-

1

-

1

-

 Farmer

0.65(0.42-1.01)

0.055

0.656(0.41-1.06)

0.086

0.67(0.41-1.08)

0.102

 Miner

1.17(0.64-2.14)

0.605

1.26(0.67-2.37)

0.465

1.26(0.67-2.37)

0.479

  1. aBaseline model is stratified by occupational classes
  2. bAdjusted model 1 is adjusted for the confounding variables age (continuous variable), gender (male/female), and education (continuous variable)
  3. cAdjusted model 2 has additional adjustment for the confounding variables smoking (current, former, never), physical activity (continuous variable), BMI (continuous variable) and CVD (yes/no)
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