Smoking-adjusted risk of kidney cancer by occupation: a population-based cohort study of Nordic men

Figures & data

Figure 1. Association between smoking prevalence and standardized incidence ratio (SIR) of lung cancer in Finnish males.

Table 1. The observed number of cases (Obs), crude and smoking-adjusted standardized incidence ratios (SIR) of kidney cancer in Nordic males by occupation.

Occupational group	Obs	Unadjusted		Adjusted^a
		SIR	95% CI	SIR	95% CI
Administrators	2300	1.08	1.04–1.13	1.17	1.13–1.22
Artistic workers	256	1.06	0.93–1.20	1.10	0.97–1.24
Assistant nurses	59	1.10	0.84–1.42	1.18	0.89–1.52
Beverage workers	52	1.13	0.84–1.48	0.97	0.72–1.27
Bricklayers	385	1.00	0.90–1.10	0.91	0.83–1.01
Building caretakers	531	1.02	0.93–1.11	0.95	0.87–1.04
Chemical process workers	570	0.93	0.85–1.01	0.88	0.81–0.96
Chimney sweeps	42	1.18	0.85–1.59	0.99	0.71–1.34
Clerical workers	1810	1.06	1.01–1.11	1.12	1.07–1.17
Cooks and stewards	155	1.23	1.05–1.44	1.01	0.86–1.19
Dentists	89	1.04	0.83–1.28	1.32	1.06–1.62
Domestic assistants	4	0.72	0.20–1.84	0.84	0.23–2.14
Drivers	2747	1.13	1.09–1.17	1.02	0.99–1.06
Economically inactive	2575	1.03	0.99–1.07	0.92	0.88–0.95
Electrical workers	1289	1.02	0.96–1.08	1.02	0.96–1.07
Engine operators	1142	1.08	1.02–1.14	1.01	0.95–1.07
Farmers	4458	0.78	0.75–0.80	0.96	0.93–0.98
Fishermen	572	1.08	1.00–1.18	1.03	0.94–1.11
Food workers	812	1.10	1.02–1.17	1.03	0.96–1.10
Forestry workers	849	0.77	0.72–0.83	0.82	0.76–0.88
Gardeners	1233	0.84	0.80–0.89	0.98	0.93–1.04
Glassmakers	596	0.94	0.87–1.02	0.89	0.82–0.96
Hairdressers	119	1.11	0.92–1.33	1.03	0.86–1.24
Journalists	132	1.17	0.98–1.38	1.21	1.01–1.44
Laboratory assistants	42	0.80	0.58–1.09	0.86	0.62–1.16
Launderers	62	0.89	0.68–1.14	0.81	0.62–1.03
Mechanics	3669	1.06	1.02–1.09	0.97	0.94–1.00
Military personnel	417	1.12	1.02–1.24	1.17	1.06–1.29
Miners and quarry workers	278	1.07	0.95–1.21	0.88	0.78–0.99
Nurses	7	0.72	0.29–1.49	0.97	0.39–1.99
Other construction workers	1488	0.96	0.92–1.01	0.86	0.82–0.91
Other health workers	159	0.98	0.83–1.15	1.06	0.91–1.24
Other workers	1671	0.97	0.93–1.02	0.92	0.87–0.96
Packers	1264	1.06	1.01–1.13	0.96	0.90–1.01
Painters	671	0.96	0.89–1.04	0.89	0.82–0.96
Physicians	202	0.95	0.82–1.09	1.19	1.03–1.36
Plumbers	470	1.11	1.01–1.21	0.95	0.87–1.04
Postal workers	460	0.99	0.90–1.08	1.02	0.93–1.11
Printers	395	1.01	0.91–1.12	0.94	0.85–1.04
Public safety workers	768	1.16	1.08–1.25	1.19	1.10–1.27
Religious workers	751	0.98	0.91–1.05	1.17	1.09–1.26
Sales agents	2398	1.11	1.07–1.16	1.12	1.07–1.16
Seamen	628	1.16	1.07–1.26	0.94	0.87–1.01
Shoe and leather workers	186	1.03	0.89–1.19	1.01	0.87–1.17
Shop workers	1347	1.13	1.07–1.19	1.15	1.09–1.21
Smelting workers	813	1.07	0.99–1.14	0.94	0.88–1.01
Teachers	1088	0.88	0.83–0.93	1.12	1.05–1.19
Technical workers	3646	1.04	1.01–1.08	1.14	1.10–1.17
Textile workers	475	1.01	0.92–1.11	1.03	0.94–1.13
Tobacco workers	12	1.47	0.76–2.56	1.12	0.58–1.96
Transport workers	956	1.09	1.02–1.16	1.12	1.05–1.19
Waiters	95	1.26	1.02–1.53	0.93	0.75–1.13
Welders	533	1.25	1.14–1.36	1.11	1.02–1.21
Woodworkers	2602	0.93	0.89–0.97	0.95	0.92–0.99

^aResults from Model B.