Table 5.

Pooled cohort study of asbestos cement workers in Italy. Poisson regression analyses of mortality by gender and cumulative exposure for selected diseases

			RR	95% CI	Other terms in the model
Pleural MN
Men	Cum.exposure	I tertile	1		age and period
		II tertile	2.41	1.61–3.61
		III tertile	4.88	3.18–7.48
	TSFE	0–19 years	1
		20–29 years	2.08	1.08–4.01
		30–39 years	4.40	2.26–8.54
		40–49 years	4.48	2.13–9.42
Women	Cum.exposure	I tertile	1		age and period
		II tertile	1.33	0.57–3.05
		III tertile	4.35	1.92–9.84
	TSFE	0–19 years	1
		20–29 years	1.79	.35–9.10
		30–39 years	4.59	0.99–21.36
		40–49 years	4.80	0.96–24.06
		50 + years	4.59	0.82–25.73
Peritoneal MN
Men	Cum.exposure	I tertile	1		period
		II tertile	5.58	1.66–18.80
		III tertile	16.62	5.01–55.10
	TSFE	0–29 years	1
		30–39 years	4.14	1.86–9.19
		40–49 years	11.21	4.88–25.76
		50 + years	14.45	5.67–36.86
Women	Cum.exposure	I tertile	1		period
		II tertile	0.52	0.09–3.17
		III tertile	4.25	0.94–19.28
	TSFE	0–29 years	1
		30–39 years	1.45	0.09–23.99
		40–49 years	10.35	1.15–93.36
		50 + years	37.25	4.13–336.26
Lung MN
Men	Cum.exposure	I tertile	1		age and period
		II tertile	1.15	0.92–1.43
		III tertile	1.82	1.45–2.29
	TSFE	0–19 years	1
		20–29 years	1.74	1.31–2.32
		30–39 years	2.22	1.63–3.01
		40–49 years	1.76	1.23–2.52
		50 + years	1.34	0.87–2.07
Women	Cum.exposure	I tertile	1		age
		II tertile	3.75	1.12–12.61
		III tertile	2.25	0.63–8.07

Cumulative exposure expressed as Fibre-type-weighted-CEI (Index of cumulative exposure adjusted for the type of asbestos used), see text for details