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Table 6 SMRs, by duration of employment and time since first employment

From: Mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters in Hamburg, Germany: a cohort study 1950 – 2000

Duration of observation

0–4 years

5–9 years

10–19 years

20–29 years

30+ years

Total

Duration of employment

      

0–4 years

0.3 (7/23.6)

0.12–0.61

4.76 (4/0.8)

1.30–12.19

0.5 (1/1.9)

0.01–2.93

1.24 (4/3.2)

0.34–3.20

1.66 (10/6.0)

0.80–3.07

0.73 (26/35.5)

0.80–1.07

5–9 years

 

0.51 (12/23.7)

0.26–0.88

1.04 (3/2.9)

0.21–3.04

0.59 (2/3.39)

0.07–2.13

3.62 (4/1.1)

0.99–9.31

0.68 (21/31.1)

0.42–1.03

10–19 years

  

0.60 (37/61.6)

0.42–0.83

1.5 (11/7.3)

0.75–2.70

0.76 (9/11.8)

0.35–1.45

0.71 (57/80.7)

0.53–0.92

20–29 years

   

0.60 (55/91.5)

0.45–0.78

0.67 (20/29.9)

0.41–1.03

0.62 (75/121.4)

0.49–0.77

30+ years

    

0.55 (71/129.5)

0.43–0.69

0.55 (71/129.5)

0.43–0.69

Total

0.3 (7/23.6)

0.12–0.61

0.65 (16/24.54)

0.37–1.06

0.62 (41/66.38)

0.44–0.84

0.68 (72/105.4)

0.53–0.86

0.64 (114/178.3)

0.53–0.77

0.63 (250/398.2)

0.55–0.71

  1. Note: fire fighter cohort employed after 1/1/1950 (SMR, # of observed/expected cases, 95% CI)