Mortality risk for infectious pneumonia among male Swedish construction workers aged 65–84 years exposed to inorganic dust, chemicals, metal fumes and wood dust, adjusted for age and smoking based on Poisson regression models
| Predictor (exposure) | Infectious pneumonia (N=628) |
| RR (95% CI) | |
| Referents | 1 |
| n=99 | |
| Inorganic dust* | 1.36 (1.09 to 1.68) |
| n=468 | |
| Chemicals* | 1.40 (1.08 to 1.81) |
| n=141 | |
| Metal fumes* | 1.16 (0.82 to 1.62) |
| n=51 | |
| Wood dust* | 1.30 (0.94 to 1.78) |
| n=61 | |
| Any exposure* | 1.31 (1.06 to 1.63) |
| n=529 |
* Binary outcome (1=yes, 0=no).