Table 5.

Standardized mortality ratios for outcomes of a priori interest among long-term workers (3 months or longer) by sex, NIOSH Capacitor Cohort, 1960–2008.^a

Underlying cause of deathb	Women (n = 8642)			Men (n = 8576)
	OBS	SMRc	95% CI	OBS	SMR	95% CI
All causes	3155	0.97	0.94–1.01	3278	0.91	0.88–0.94
All cancers	983	1.06	1.00–1.13	924	0.97	0.90–1.03
MN of stomach	13	0.75	0.40–1.28	33	1.25	0.86–1.75
MN of intestine except rectum	102	1.23	1.00–1.49	73	0.92	0.72–1.16
MN of rectum	22	1.52	0.95–2.30	19	1.07	0.65–1.67
MN of biliary passages, liver and gall bladder	25	1.12	0.73–1.65	19	0.70	0.42–1.10
MN of breast	163	0.96	0.82–1.12	2	1.68	0.20–6.07
MN of other and unspecified parts of uterus	28	1.18	0.78–1.70
MN of ovary, fallopian tube, and broad ligaments	49	0.85	0.63–1.13
MN of prostate				78	1.07	0.85–1.34
Melanoma	12	1.11	0.57–1.94	29	1.59	1.06–2.28
MN of brain and other parts of nervous system	19	0.85	0.51–1.33	34	1.25	0.87–1.75
MN of thyroid	2	0.79	0.10–2.84	1	0.54	0.01–3.04
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	37	1.07	0.75–1.48	32	0.84	0.58–1.19
Multiple myeloma	20	1.30	0.80–2.01	21	1.32	0.82–2.01
Dementia and Alzheimer diseased	62	0.96	0.73–1.23	22	0.82	0.51–1.24
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosisd	16	1.90	1.09–3.09	4	0.44	0.12–1.12
Parkinson diseased	16	1.12	0.64–1.81	26	1.45	0.94–2.12

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OBS, observed deaths; MN, malignant neoplasm; SMR, standardized mortality ratio.

^aAll results are for long-term workers (employed for 3 months or longer) and exclude workers who died (n = 58) or were lost to follow-up (n = 155) prior to the rate file begin date (1 January 1960).

^bFor cause of death outcomes of a priori interest. Complete results available from the first author.

^cThe SMR is the ratio of observed to expected (using United States underlying cause of death rates, 1960–2007) deaths; 95% CI was estimated based on the Poisson distribution.

^dNeurodegenerative outcomes based on US underlying cause of death rates, 1960–2007.