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Published in final edited form as: J Occup Environ Hyg. 2019 Jul 30;16(9):628–633. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2019.1640366

Table 2.

Crude and adjusted associations between TLV for HAL® categories and incident CTS

	2001 ACGIH for Hand Activity®			2018 ACGIH HA TLV®
Variable	HR	(95%CI)	p>ChiSq	HR	(95%CI)	p>ChiSq
Unadjusted
< AL	1.00			1.00
≥AL and ≤ TLV	1.80	(1.27–2.57)	0.0011	1.12	(0.72–1.72)	0.6171
> TLV	2.01	(1.41–2.84)	<0.0001	2.03	(1.37–3.00)	0.0004
Adjusted for BMI, age, gender, research site
< AL	1.00			1.00
≥AL and ≤ TLV	1.88	(1.30–2.72)	0.0007	1.16	(0.73–1.85)	0.5225
> TLV	1.73	(1.20–2.49)	0.0034	1.99	(1.28–3.10)	0.0021