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. 2006 Nov 9;64(4):259–266. doi: 10.1136/oem.2005.023879

Table 3 Clustering of neurological symptoms according to previous work with pesticides.

Number of symptoms reported* Never worked with pesticides Ever worked with sheep dip Ever worked with insecticides, never with sheep dip Ever worked with other pesticides, never with sheep dip or insecticides All subjects
O† E‡ O/E§ O† E‡ O/E§ O† E‡ O/E§ O† E‡ O/E§ O† E‡ O/E§
0 4671 4044.2 1.2 1327 1071.6 1.2 601 493.1 1.2 712 587.8 1.2 7311 6185.8 1.2
1 893 1752.7 0.5 347 666.5 0.5 135 273.8 0.5 165 324.9 0.5 1540 3036.6 0.5
2 302 287.1 1.1 128 155.4 0.8 45 58.5 0.8 55 69.3 0.8 530 565.4 0.9
3 132 23.8 5.5 53 18.2 2.9 31 6.3 4.9 35 7.6 4.6 251 53.3 4.7
4 67 1.1 98.2 27 1.2 47.5 9 0.4 52.6 12 0.5 47.9 115 2.8 73.6
5 28 0.0 21 0.0 9 0.0 8 0.0 66 0.1
6 10 0.0 8 0.0 2 0.0 1 0.0 21 0.0
7 6 0.0 2 0.0 0 0.0 2 0.0 10 0.0

*From the seven symptoms listed in table 1.

†Observed number of subjects.

‡Expected number of subjects if prevalence of each symptom were statistically independent (see text).

§Based on expected numbers rounded to two decimal places.