Table 6.
Risk of Self-Reported Myocardial Infarction/Fatal Coronary Heart Disease According to Median Total Hydrocarbon Exposure and Time Since Initiating Oil Spill Work (n = 22,550), Gulf Long-Term Follow-up Study, United States, 2010–2016
Median THC Exposure, ppm | Time Since Initiating Oil Spill Work | |||||||
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12 Months | 24 Months | 36 Months | 48 Months | |||||
Riska | RD | Riska | RD | Riska | RD | Riska | RD | |
<0.10 | 0.003 | Referent | 0.006 | Referent | 0.009 | Referent | 0.010 | Referent |
0.10–0.29 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.009 | 0.003 | 0.012 | 0.003 | 0.017 | 0.007 |
0.30–0.99 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.008 | 0.002 | 0.011 | 0.002 | 0.015 | 0.005 |
≥1.00 | 0.006 | 0.003 | 0.009 | 0.003 | 0.014 | 0.005 | 0.017 | 0.006 |
Abbreviations: ppm, parts per million; RD, risk difference; THC, total hydrocarbons.
a Risk estimates accounted for confounders (age, sex, education, smoking, and residential proximity to the spill) and predictors of censoring (age, education, ethnicity, smoking, cleanup work duration, and residential proximity to the spill) using inverse-probability weights.