Table 3. Estimated Long-term Health Consequences of Pesticide Exposure among Farmers in China, 2009–2011 (OLS Estimation).
| Variables | WBC | Cr | K | TNPCMAPA | TNDCMAPA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pesticide application: | ||||||||||
| Group H | 0.64 (0.03, 1.26)* | -5.32 (-8.91, -1.73)** | -0.28 (-0.48, -0.08)** | -1.35 (-2.61, -0.10)** | -1.53(-3.04, -0.02)* | |||||
| Control variables: | ||||||||||
| Female | 0.35 (-0.41, 1.12) | -18.00 (-22.43, -13.56)** | -0.02 (-0.27, 0.23) | -0.59 (-2.14, 0.95) | 0.07 (-1.79, 1.93) | |||||
| Age (year) | -0.01 (-0.04, 0.01) | 0.17 (0.04, 0.31* | 0.00 (-0.01, 0.00) | -0.12 (-0.17, -0.07)** | -0.11 (-0.17, -0.05)** | |||||
| Height (cm) | -0.01 (-0.05, 0.04) | 0.03 (-0.25, 0.31) | -0.01 (-0.02, 0.01) | 0.03 (-0.07, 0.13) | 0.12 (0.00, 0.24)* | |||||
| Weight (kg) | 0.01 (-0.02, 0.04) | 0.16 (0.01, 0.31* | 0.01 (-0.00, 0.01) | -0.06 (-0.11, -0.01)* | -0.06 (-0.13, 0.00) | |||||
| Current smoker | 0.59 (0.03, 1.16)* | -3.91 (-7.19, -0.63)* | 0.16 (-0.02, 0.34) | -0.12 (-1.26, 1.03) | -0.37 (-1.75, 1.01) | |||||
| Current drinker | -0.07(-0.58, 0.44) | -0.65 (-3.60, 2.31) | 0.20 (0.04, 0.37)* | -0.16 (-1.20, 0.88) | -0.61 (-1.87, 0.64) | |||||
| Constant | 6.83 (-0.94, 14.60) | 50.29 (5.19, 95.39) | 5.47 (2.94, 7.99)** | 17.40 (1.35, 33.44)* | 4.19 (-15.12, 23.50) | |||||
| Observations | 242 | 242 | 242 | 246 | 246 | |||||
| R-squared | 0.11 | 0.46 | 0.19 | 0.14 | 0.10 | |||||
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; Cr, creatinine; K, potassium; TNPCMAPA, tibial nerve proximal compound muscle action potential amplitude; TNDCMAPA, tibial nerve distal compound muscle action potential amplitude; WBC, white blood cell.
* and ** represent the levels of significance at 5% and 1%, respectively. Province dummy variables were included, but not reported.