Table 2 Cumulative incidence of respiratory outcomes (%).

From: 18-yr cumulative incidence of respiratory outcomes is related to employment sectors in a general population sample

 

N / Total&

%

Asthma diagnosis

25/772

3.2

COPD diagnosis

88/769

11.4

SOBWHZ*

55/765

7.2

Wheezing

68/627

10.8

Usual cough/phlegm

160/644

24.8

Dyspnea grade I+

213/675

31.6

AOGOLD**

66/290

22.8

AOLLN**

44/285

15.4

  1. &Sample size ranges according to the reference categories (not having the outcome at baseline) (see the supplementary material).
  2. *SOBWHZ: attacks of shortness of breath with wheezing/whistling.
  3. **Airway obstruction (AO) according to the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) criterion: FEV1/FVC < 70%; airway obstruction according to the lower limit of normal (LLN) American Thoracic Society (ATS) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) criteria: FEV1/FVC < 5th percentile of the predicted value.
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