Table 4 |
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Hazard ratios (HR) including 95% confidence intervals (CI) of various cardiovascular diseases among 20,141 men Swiss railway workers with a dataset censored all observations at the age of 65 years. |
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Outcome |
Station master (Reference) |
Train attendant |
Shunting yard engineer |
Train driver |
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Heart and circulation diseases, all |
No. of deaths |
144 |
217 |
59 |
141 |
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HR (95%CI) |
1 (-) |
1.19 (0.96, 1.47) |
1.25 (0.92, 1.70) |
0.95 (0.75, 1.21) |
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Arrhythmia related diseases |
No. of deaths |
6 |
6 |
2 |
7 |
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HR (95%CI) |
1 (-) |
0.62 (0.20, 1.99) |
1.01 (0.20, 5.03) |
1.13 (0.37, 3.41) |
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Acute myocardial infarction |
No. of deaths |
23 |
33 |
14 |
26 |
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HR (95%CI) |
1 (-) |
1.14 (0.67, 1.97) |
1.90 (0.97, 3.71) |
1.11 (0.63, 1.95) |
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Atherosclerosis related mortality |
No. of deaths |
5 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
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HR (95%CI) |
1 (-) |
0.16 (0.02, 1.40) |
0.72 (0.08, 6.26) |
0.63 (0.15, 2.70) |
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Sub-acute and chronic coronary heart disease |
No. of deaths |
40 |
80 |
20 |
44 |
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HR (95%CI) |
1 (-) |
1.50 (1.02, 2.21) |
1.47 (0.86, 2.52) |
1.04 (0.67, 1.60) |
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adjusted for age and 5 year calendar periods as well as stratified for the period before and after 1995, when coding changed from ICD-8 to ICD-10. |
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Röösli et al. Environmental Health 2008 7:35 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-35 |
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