Table 3.
Adjusted, sex-specific FEV1 and FVC in the comparison population of managerial and administrative support occupations and adjusted mean differences between current/most recent occupation and the comparison population at ARIC study visit 1, N=14,497.
| Men (N=6,597) |
Women (N=7,900) |
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| No. (col. %) | FEV1, in mL1 | FVC, in mL1 | No. (col. %) | FEV1, in mL1 | FVC, in mL1 | |
| Managerial and Administrative Support Occupations | 1,633 (24.8) | 3,069.0 (27.8) | 4,398.3 (28.9) | 2,081 (26.3) | 2,217.3 (16.7) | 3,074.6 (17.9) |
| Professional Specialty Occupations | 926 (14.0) | 26.6 (−16.4, 69.6) | 42.6 (−6.4, 91.6) | 1,093 (13.8) | 36.5 (8.9, 64.1) | 61.7 (28.7, 94.7) |
| Technical and Sales Occupations | ||||||
| Health technology | 15 (0.2) | 132.5 (−99.6, 364.6) | 186.2 (−113.0, 485.4) | 138 (1.8) | −73.0 (−141.8, −4.2) | −44.9 (−127.8, 38.0) |
| Sales | 732 (11.1) | 14.7 (−31.7, 61.1) | 20.7 (−32.0, 73.3) | 557 (7.1) | −12.6 (−46.7, 21.6) | 3.5 (−38.3, 45.4) |
| Other technical and sales occupations | 172 (2.6) | 69.2 (−14.6, 153.0) | 77.7 (−15.1, 170.5) | 39 (0.5) | 42.0 (−62.0, 146.0) | 3.0 (−113.7, 119.8) |
| Service Occupations | ||||||
| Private household occupations | 2 (<0.1) | 294.4 (−400.9, 989.7) | 112.5 (−448.7, 673.7) | 631 (8.0) | −9.0 (−44.9, 26.9) | −8.0 (−48.6, 32.6) |
| Protective service | 140 (2.1) | −69.3 (−165.3, 26.6) | −50.5 (−161.3, 60.4) | 32 (0.4) | −49.5 (−193.0, 94.0) | −60.4 (−219.8, 99.1) |
| Food preparation and service | 36 (0.6) | −32.3 (−199.2, 134.5) | 11.8 (−183.7, 207.2) | 355 (4.5) | −33.7 (−76.7, 9.2) | −48.2 (−100.5, 4.0) |
| Health service | 18 (0.3) | 199 (−66.9, 465.0) | 425.4 (177.8, 673.1) | 306 (3.9) | −3.7 (−49.6, 42.2) | −6.3 (−61.7, 49.0) |
| Cleaning and building service | 183 (2.8) | −58.7 (−147.7, 30.3) | −23.8 (−122.9, 75.2) | 178 (2.3) | −35.3 (−91.9, 21.3) | −31.8 (−101.1, 37.6) |
| Other service occupations | 40 (0.6) | −22.4 (−220.7, 175.9) | 36.9 (−190.4, 264.2) | 226 (2.9) | −41.5 (−94.0, 11.0) | −23.1 (−86.2, 40.0) |
| Farming, Forestry, and Fishing Occupations | 123 (1.9) | 16.5 (−85.6, 118.5) | 49.4 (−62.0, 160.7) | 19 (0.2) | 39.0 (−137.7, 215.8) | 123.1 (−107.1, 353.3) |
| Precision Occupations | ||||||
| Mechanics and repairers | 446 (6.8) | 45.7 (−11.2, 102.5) | 76.8 (13.6, 139.9) | 19 (0.2) | 73.0 (−79.0, 225.0) | 68.6 (−126.0, 263.2) |
| Construction and extractive trades | 531 (8.0) | −12.7 (−70.9, 45.5) | 65.2 (−0.1, 130.5) | 10 (0.1) | 36.5 (−298.8, 371.8) | 203.6 (−149.9, 557.2) |
| Other precision occupations | 388 (5.9) | −13.3 (−77.4, 50.7) | 10.3 (−60.2, 80.8) | 139 (1.8) | 6.2 (−56.0, 68.4) | −23.3 (−96.1, 49.6) |
| Machine Operating Occupations | ||||||
| Textile, apparel and furnishing machine operators | 18 (0.3) | −30.2 (−219.9, 159.4) | −28.2 (−278.2, 221.7) | 143 (1.8) | −55.4 (−127.2, 16.4) | 8.9 (−77.6, 95.4) |
| Machine operators, assorted materials | 187 (2.8) | −62.6 (−144.4, 19.3) | −84.6 (−180.0, 10.7) | 165 (2.1) | −36.5 (−98.7, 25.7) | −17.7 (−85.9, 50.5) |
| Hand working occupations | 74 (1.1) | −33.8 (−160.2, 92.6) | −21.2 (−158.0, 115.6) | 92 (1.2) | 22.0 (−54.4, 98.3) | 34.9 (−52.9, 122.8) |
| Motor vehicle operation | 396 (6.0) | −17.3 (−79.1, 44.6) | 14.6 (−56.7, 85.8) | 50 (0.6) | −105.0 (−205.8, −4.2) | −100.6 (−216.4, 15.2) |
| Transportation, excl. motor vehicle | 141 (2.1) | −66.6 (−172.0, 38.9) | −95.0 (−209.1, 19.2) | 8 (0.1) | 99.0 (−196.0, 393.9) | 245.3 (−62.4, 553.0) |
| Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, laborers | 235 (3.6) | −1.5 (−78.7, 75.7) | 10.4 (−80.3, 101.2) | 95 (1.2) | 44.3 (−31.6, 120.2) | 55.2 (−34.5, 145.0) |
| Other machine operating occupations | 149 (2.3) | 16.5 (−75.1, 108.2) | −13.9 (−117.5, 89.7) | 148 (1.9) | −51.4 (−112.6, 9.8) | −2.1 (−76.0, 71.8) |
| Homemaker, no other job reported | 13 (0.2) | −83.5 (−480.9, 314.0) | −131.8 (−542.1, 278.5) | 1,376 (17.4) | −31.1 (−58.1, −4.1) | −12.3 (−44.2, 19.7) |
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Values of FEV1 and FVC shown for the comparison population are adjusted means (with standard errors). All others are least-square mean differences (with 95% CIs) from the mean values of the comparison population (managerial and administrative support occupations), adjusted for age, age squared, height, height squared, history of asthma, pack-years, race, smoking status, and study center.