Table 4.
Associations between current/most recent occupation and the prevalence of airway obstruction at ARIC study visit 1, N=14,497.
| All Participants No. (col. %) |
Airway Obstruction |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. (row %) | PR (95% CI)1 | ||
| Total | 14,497 (100.) | 1,368 (9.4) | |
| Managerial and Administrative Support Occupations | 3,714 (25.6) | 302 (8.1) | 1.00 (referent) |
| Professional Specialty Occupations | 2,019 (13.9) | 126 (6.2) | 1.05 (0.87, 1.27) |
| Technical and Sales Occupations | |||
| Health technology | 153 (1.1) | 12 (7.8) | 1.35 (0.79, 2.31) |
| Sales | 1,289 (8.9) | 131 (10.2) | 1.12 (0.93, 1.35) |
| Other technical and sales occupations | 211 (1.5) | 19 (9.0) | 1.01 (0.66, 1.53) |
| Service Occupations | |||
| Private household occupations | 633 (4.4) | 52 (8.2) | 1.40 (1.05, 1.86) |
| Protective service | 172 (1.2) | 24 (14.0) | 1.43 (0.99, 2.05) |
| Food preparation and service | 391 (2.7) | 27 (6.9) | 0.92 (0.63, 1.33) |
| Health service | 324 (2.2) | 23 (7.1) | 1.16 (0.78, 1.74) |
| Cleaning and building service | 361 (2.5) | 41 (11.4) | 1.18 (0.89, 1.56) |
| Other service occupations | 266 (1.8) | 27 (10.2) | 1.45 (1.05, 2.00) |
| Farming, Forestry, and Fishing Occupations | 142 (1.0) | 13 (9.2) | 0.91 (0.55, 1.52) |
| Precision Occupations | |||
| Mechanics and repairers | 465 (3.2) | 68 (14.6) | 1.13 (0.90, 1.43) |
| Construction and extractive trades | 540 (3.7) | 78 (14.4) | 1.32 (1.05, 1.65) |
| Other precision occupations | 527 (3.6) | 64 (12.1) | 1.20 (0.94, 1.53) |
| Machine Operating Occupations | |||
| Textile, apparel and furnishing machine operators | 161 (1.1) | 17 (10.6) | 1.27 (0.81, 1.97) |
| Machine operators, assorted materials | 352 (2.4) | 37 (10.5) | 1.12 (0.83, 1.52) |
| Hand working occupations | 166 (1.2) | 17 (10.2) | 1.07 (0.70, 1.63) |
| Motor vehicle operation | 446 (3.1) | 60 (13.5) | 1.19 (0.93, 1.52) |
| Transportation, excl. motor vehicle | 149 (1.0) | 18 (12.1) | 1.00 (0.66, 1.52) |
| Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, laborers | 330 (2.3) | 34 (10.3) | 1.05 (0.77, 1.43) |
| Other machine operating occupations | 297 (2.1) | 39 (13.1) | 1.26 (0.95, 1.66) |
| Homemaker, no other job reported | 1,389 (9.6) | 139 (10.0) | 1.21 (1.00, 1.47) |
1
Adjusted for age, history of asthma, pack-years, race, sex, smoking status, and study center