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Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Med. 2012 Feb;54(2):198–201. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31823fdf53

Table 4.

Characteristics Potentially Associated with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Poultry Workers (N = 574 wrists)

Characteristic	No CTS Mean [SD] or N (row %)	Possible CTS Mean [SD] or N (row %)	CTS Mean [SD] or N (row %)	Multivariate Analysis
Characteristic	No CTS Mean [SD] or N (row %)	Possible CTS Mean [SD] or N (row %)	CTS Mean [SD] or N (row %)	AOR^*	p-value
Age	34.4 [11.0]	38.2 [10.7]	40.1 [12.1]	1.04	0.0008
BMI	28.1 [4.4]	29.0 [4.4]	30.3 [5.5]	1.04	0.0842
Gender
Female	131 (50.8)	108 (41.9)	19 (7.4)	1.09	0.7045
Male ^**	168 (53.2)	130 (41.1)	18 (5.7)	---	---
Poultry Job Task^†					0.0283 df = 3
Category 1 ^**	123 (58.6)	75 (35.7)	12 (5.7)	---	---
Category 2	129 (50.4)	115 (44.9)	12 (4.7)	1.57	0.0661
Category 3	21 (47.7)	16 (36.4)	7 (15.9)	2.09	0.1156
Category 4	26 (40.6)	50 (50.0)	6 (9.4)	2.66	0.0035

Adjusted odds ratio

^**

Reference category

^†

Category 1: Packing, Sanitation, Chilling, Other

Category 2: Cutting, Eviscerating, Wash-up, Trimming, Deboning

Category 3: Receiving, Hanging, Killing, Plucking

Category 4: Multiple job tasks