Modelling prevalence and incidence of fibrosis and pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed populations for screening and follow-up: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Modelling the incidence of pleural plaques using a complementary log-log regression

	Model 1			Model 2
	coefficient	95%CI	p	coefficient	95%CI	p
Intercept Log(k/(α +1))	-5.093	-6.098, -4.089	<0.001	-4.553	-5.519, -3.588	<0.001
Log time since first exposure	1.340	1.045, 1.635	<0.001	1.201	0.913, 1.490	<0.001
Mean exposure (f/ml)	0.069	0.049, 0.090	<0.001
Cumulative exposure (100 y.f/ml)				0.211	0.142, 0.281	<0.001
Akaike Information Criterion	1230.3			1239.4
Fitted Incidence model	0.00823 × (TSFE-10)^0.340 × exp(0.069. mean expo)			0.0127 × (TSFE-10)^0.201 × exp(0.00211.cum expo)

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