Table 4.

Risks of surgically treated CTS associated with job titles prevalent in the last 2 years* among non-retired women

				Univariate	Multivariate†
	ISCO codes	Cases (n = 163)	Controls (n = 238)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
White collar	1, 21, 22 (not 2230), 23 (not 2332), 24, 311, 312, 315, 32 (not 3225 or 323), 341, 342, 343, 346, 41 (not 4131 or 4132), 42 (not 4211), 516	16	109‡	1.0	1.0
Food retail workers	5221	8	2	27.3 (4.3-173.2)	29.8 (5.6-159.7)
Miscellaneous blue-collar workers	4131, 4132, 71, 724, 73, 741, 7421, 7442, 822, 823, 8240, 825, 8266, 827, 8282, 8285, 931	14	5	19.1 (5.0-72.6)	21.4 (6.0-76.8)
Waiters/bartenders	5123	6	2	20.4 (3.2-129.0)	20.2 (3.4-119.5)
Cooks	5122	8	3	18.2 (3.7-88.7)	17.2 (3.7-78.8)
Agricultural/horticultural workers	61, 9211	10	4	17.0 (4.1-71.3)	13.3 (3.5-51.3)
Cleaners and domestic helpers	9131, 9132	13	8	11.1 (3.5-34.6)	9.2 (3.1-27.6)
Textile (mainly sewing-machine) workers	826	5	4	8.5 (1.9-37.7)	9.2 (2.0-42.4)
Metal workers	721, 722, 723, 812, 8211, 8281	5	4	8.5 (1.9-37.7)	9.0 (2.0-39.6)
Packaging workers	9320	7	5	9.5 (2.5-36.8)	8.7 (2.3-33.2)
Nurses and paramedical workers	2230, 3225, 323, 5132, 5133	9	7	8.8 (2.6-29.2)	7.9 (2.5-25.3)
Miscellaneous service sector workers	4211, 5141, 5220, 83, 911, 9133, 914, 915, 916	10	14	4.9 (1.8-13.4)	4.7 (1.7-12.9)
Housewives	5121	46	58	5.4 (2.7-10.9)	4.4 (2.1-9.1)
Tailors	743	4	6	4.5 (1.1-18.5)	3.5 (0.8-14.9)
Pre-primary school workers	2332, 3320, 5131	2	7	1.9 (0.4-10.3)	2.3 (0.4-12.5)

*For cases who changed task due to CTS, we considered the patient's job title at the time of onset of symptoms.

†Unconditional logistic regression model adjusted for the individual factors entered in the multivariate model reported in Table 2 (ie. BMI, height, parity, age and center).

‡Includes 1 student.