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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 16.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2020 Jul;31(4):468–477. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001195

TABLE 4.

Results of Subgroup Analysis by Primary Diagnosis of ARDS Patients

No. cases Construction Manufacturing
ARDS with sepsis 319,083 0.87 (0.79, 0.95) 1.27 (1.12, 1.41)
ARDS with pneumonia 22,539 0.05 (−0.26, 0.36) 0.82 (0.30, 1.35)
ARDS with traumatic injury 60,410 0.30 (0.13, 0.48) 0.80 (0.48, 1.13)

Percent change (%) in annual hospital admission rates for ARDS associated with a 10 company increase per year (95% CI). Adjusted for proportion of racial groups (whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans), proportion of females, proportion of adults aged more than 85, median household income, the proportion of ever smokers, a dummy variable for each year, business size, and air pollution (PM2.5, and ozone).