Table 4.
Prevalence (P) of cold-related finger, general and performance complaints and prevalence differences (PD, percentage points, pp)
| Subgroup | Finger | General | Performance degradation | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | |||||||
| P (%) | PD (pp) | PD (pp) | 95% CI | P (%) | PD (pp) | PD (pp) | 95% CI | P (%) | PD (pp) | PD (pp) | 95% CI | |
| Sex | ||||||||||||
| Men | 65.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 79.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 79.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Women | 58.9 | −6.1 | −0.3 | (−9.7–9.1) | 76.8 | −2.4 | −0.4 | (−7.8–7.0) | 85.8 | 6.6 | −11.7 | (−20.0– −3.5) |
| Age (yr) | ||||||||||||
| 18–24 | 58.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 78.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| 25–34 | 66.2 | 8.2 | −1.6 | (−11.3–8.1) | 83.8 | 5.8 | 6.7 | (−0.7–14.1) | 84.6 | 9.6 | 9.8 | (2.1–17.6) |
| 35–44 | 60.0 | 2.0 | −1.4 | (−11.6–8.8) | 79.3 | 1.3 | 6.6 | (−1.1–14.4) | 86.8 | 11.8 | 16.9 | (12.2–21.5) |
| 45–57 | 62.5 | 4.5 | 0.8 | (−16.2–17.8) | 61.9 | −16.1 | −13.3 | (−30.4–3.7) | 82.8 | 7.8 | 16.6 | (9.6–23.6) |
| Education | ||||||||||||
| Primary school | 55.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 69.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 75.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Middle school | 57.7 | 2.6 | 5.1 | (−7.7–17.9) | 78.4 | 8.8 | −2.3 | (−12.0–7.3) | 74.2 | −1.2 | 10.1 | (−1.8–22.1) |
| High school | 63.9 | 8.8 | 5.9 | (−6.8–18.7) | 73.6 | 4.0 | −7.6 | (−20.6–5.3) | 81.9 | 6.5 | 11.2 | (−1.0–23.5) |
| Vocational school | 70.4 | 15.3 | 21.1 | (10.5–31.7) | 74.6 | 5.0 | −10.7 | (−25.1–3.7) | 88.9 | 13.5 | 23.7 | (17.0–30.3) |
| University | 63.2 | 8.1 | 18.7 | (8.0–29.4) | 86.8 | 17.2 | 3.2 | (−6.5–13.0) | 91.5 | 16.1 | 29.3 | (26.0–32.7) |
| Body weight | ||||||||||||
| Normal | 63.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 78.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 84.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Overweight | 60.3 | −3.1 | −10.9 | (−24.5–2.7) | 79.1 | 0.5 | 4.2 | (−4.7–13.2) | 77.9 | −6.5 | −11.9 | (−23.5– −0.2) |
| Obese | 60.9 | −2.5 | −4.7 | (−13.6–4.1) | 77.0 | −1.6 | −3.0 | (−11.2–5.3) | 82.6 | −1.8 | −5.8 | (− 12.9–1.2) |
| Smoking | ||||||||||||
| Never | 61.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 79.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 84.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Ex-smoker | 61.1 | −0.5 | 6.0 | (−16.9–29.0) | 77.8 | −1.2 | −9.0 | (−37.8–19.8) | 88.9 | 4.3 | 12.2 | (9.0–15.4) |
| Smoker | 62.2 | 0.6 | −2.4 | (−15.7–10.9) | 74.5 | −4.5 | −11.3 | (− 25.3–2.7) | 75.5 | −9.1 | − 2.5 | (− 12.9–7.9) |
| Alcohol | ||||||||||||
| Does not use | 60.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 76.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 81.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Occasionally | 63.7 | 3.7 | 10.5 | (1.6–19.4) | 74.5 | −2.1 | −4.4 | (−14.2–5.4) | 83.3 | 2.2 | 9.9 | (2.6–17.2) |
| Monthly | 65.1 | 5.1 | −6.2 | (−20.4–8.0) | 90.5 | 13.9 | 9.9 | (2.6–17.2) | 82.5 | 1.4 | 7.0 | (−2.5–16.5) |
| Weekly | 64.6 | 4.6 | −0.1 | (−16.1–15.9) | 77.1 | 0.5 | −6.3 | (−21.8–9.2) | 91.7 | 10.6 | 18.2 | (13.9–22.6) |
| Job | ||||||||||||
| Office worker | 59.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 79.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 88.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Manufacturing | 63.4 | 4.0 | 10.6 | (0.6–20.6) | 73.2 | −6.5 | 5.3 | (−4.4–15.0) | 77.5 | −10.6 | 14.8 | (8.0–22.6) |
| Storage worker | 63.2 | 3.8 | 4.2 | (−8.2–16.5) | 84.2 | 4.5 | 12.9 | (5.3–20.5) | 83.2 | −4.9 | 19.8 | (14.1–25.6) |
| Forklift driver | 57.6 | −1.8 | 12.4 | (−4.0–28.7) | 78.8 | −0.9 | 12.8 | (1.1–24.4) | 87.9 | −0.2 | 24.1 | (17.0–31.2) |
| Employment years | ||||||||||||
| 0–1.9 | 62.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 85.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| 2–9.9 | 63.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | (−8.8–9.2) | 75.4 | −10.2 | 0.0 | (−7.1–7.2) | 82.6 | 2.0 | −1.6 | (−7.9–4.8) |
| 10–30 | 58.9 | −3.7 | −8.3 | (−20.5–3.8) | 73.0 | −12.6 | −5.1 | (−15.6–5.4) | 85.2 | 4.6 | −8.5 | (−18.1–1.1) |
a Adjusted for all variables in the table other than the variable of interest, plus factory