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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Med. 2019 Jan;61(1):1–7. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001482

Table 2:

Association between Uranium Mining Exposure and Hypertension, N= 7,215; 1989–2016; MiDUS cohort.

Cardiovascular
Outcomes		 Uranium
Miners
N=3151
N (%)		 Non-Uranium
Miners
N =4064
N (%)		 Unadjusted
model
O.R.
(95% C.I.)		 Multivariable
model 1Note 1
O.R.
(95% C.I.)		 Multivariable
model 2Note 1
O.R.
(95% C.I.)
Self-reported Hypertension 1099 (44.4%) 1254 (33.6%) 1.58
(1.42, 1.75)		 1.43
(1.24, 1.66)		 1.42
(1.22, 1.65)
Measured Hypertension 1339 (43.3%) 1329 (33.5%) 1.51
(1.37, 1.67)		 0.85
(0.74, 0.97)		 0.88
(0.77, 1.02)
Hypertensive urgency 17 (0.5%) 21 (0.5%) 1.04
(0.55, 1.97)		 0.53
(0.20, 1.38)		 0.51
(0.19, 1.37)

Note 1: Multivariable analysis model 1 was adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, diabetes mellitus, BMI, current smoking status, current snuff use status, current alcohol use status, and duration of total mining tenure. Model 2 additionally adjusted for absolute FEV1 as a covariate. The missing data for total mining tenure is included in order to keep sample size among analyses consistent.