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Table 4 Hazard ratios (HR) including 95% confidence intervals (CI) of various cardiovascular diseases among 20,141 men Swiss railway workers with a dataset censored all observations at the age of 65 years.

From: Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: a cohort study of Swiss railway workers

Outcome

 

Station

master

(Reference)

Train

attendant

Shunting

yard

engineer

Train driver

Heart and circulation diseases, all

No. of deaths

144

217

59

141

 

HR

(95%CI)

1

(-)

1.19

(0.96, 1.47)

1.25

(0.92, 1.70)

0.95

(0.75, 1.21)

   Arrhythmia related diseases

No. of deaths

6

6

2

7

 

HR

(95%CI)

1

(-)

0.62

(0.20, 1.99)

1.01

(0.20, 5.03)

1.13

(0.37, 3.41)

   Acute myocardial infarction

No. of deaths

23

33

14

26

 

HR

(95%CI)

1

(-)

1.14

(0.67, 1.97)

1.90

(0.97, 3.71)

1.11

(0.63, 1.95)

   Atherosclerosis related mortality

No. of deaths

5

1

1

3

 

HR

(95%CI)

1

(-)

0.16

(0.02, 1.40)

0.72

(0.08, 6.26)

0.63

(0.15, 2.70)

   Sub-acute and chronic coronary heart disease

No. of deaths

40

80

20

44

 

HR

(95%CI)

1

(-)

1.50

(1.02, 2.21)

1.47

(0.86, 2.52)

1.04

(0.67, 1.60)

  1. adjusted for age and 5 year calendar periods as well as stratified for the period before and after 1995, when coding changed from ICD-8 to ICD-10.