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. 2021 Sep 20;9:730201. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.730201

Table 4.

Lung function among male coffee workers in Tanzania and Ethiopia.

Lung function variables Tanzaniaa and Ethiopiab
Controls Coffee workers Controls vs. coffee workers;
Independent t-test;
Controls (0) vs. coffee workers (1);
Mixed effects modelc
n = 213 n = 239 p-value B 95%CI p-value
FEV1, L/s, AM (SD) 3.45 (0.58) 3.26 (0.60) 0.001 −0.26 −0.38 −0.15 <0.001
FVC, L, AM (SD) 4.12 (0.70) 3.96 (0.65) 0.013 −0.21 −0.35 −0.08 0.002
FEV1/FVC, %, AM (SD) 84.0 (6.0) 82.4 (7.3) 0.009 −1.65 −3.49 0.19 0.079
a

Sakwari et al. (15).

b

Abaya et al. (16).

c

Mixed effects model with age, height, current smoking as fixed effects, and country as random effect.