Table 5.
Lifetime Pesticide Exposure and the Association With Prevalent Chronic Bronchitis Among Non-Smoking Farm Women in the Agricultural Health Study (1993–7).
| Chronic Bronchitis (n=583)
% |
Controls (n=20,958)
% |
Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval | Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adjusted for age, state | multivariate adjusted* | |||||
| Any pesticide | 58 | 56 | 1.14 | (0.97, 1.35) | — | |
|
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| Functional group | ||||||
|
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| Insecticides | 45 | 39 | 1.29 | (1.09, 1.53) | 1.20 | (0.98, 1.47) |
| Herbicides | 36 | 37 | 1.07 | (0.90, 1.28) | 0.91 | (0.74, 1.12) |
| Fungicides | 7 | 4 | 1.35 | (0.96, 1.89) | 1.22 | (0.84, 1.78) |
| Fumigants | 3 | 2 | 1.51 | (0.91, 2.53) | 1.45 | (0.84, 2.52) |
| Insecticide class | ||||||
|
| ||||||
| Carbamates | 37 | 31 | 1.23 | (1.03, 1.46) | 1.01 | (0.81, 1.26) |
| Organophosphates | 31 | 25 | 1.35 | (1.12, 1.62) | 1.22 | (0.95, 1.56) |
| Organochlorines | 11 | 7 | 1.37 | (1.05, 1.80) | 1.21 | (0.88, 1.66) |
| Pyrethroids | 6 | 5 | 1.33 | (0.91, 1.93) | 1.13 | (0.76, 1.68) |
*
adjused for age, state, and variables within each group- functional group or insecticide class