Prevalent Health Problems among Nepalese Underground Construction Workers

Table 3

Bivariate logistic regression for the association of demographic variables with health problems among all construction workers.

Disease	Age		Sex		Smoking		Tobacco chew
	Odds ratio	value	Odds ratio	value	Odds ratio	value	Odds ratio	value
URTI	1.002	0.911	1.647	0.289	0.989	0.683	1.056	0.888
Injuries	1.025	0.164	00	0.998	0.96	0.149	1.272	0.578
APD	0.997	0.915	1.514	0.597	1.00	0.994	2.261	0.137
Hypertension	0.935	0.001	0.659	0.63	1.018	0.592	0.952	0.926
Cutaneous fungal infection	1.077	0.026	0.527	0.543	0.930	0.115	1.703	0.439
Malabsorption	1.092	0.33	1.62	0.543	0.961	0.612	2.786	0.159
Acute gastroenteritis	0.979	0.401	0.626	0.657	1.114	0.179	0.474	0.348
Foreign body eye/ear	0.993	0.790	1.53	0.59	1.115	0.257	1.761	0.337
Dermatitis	0.962	0.156	3.233	0.09	1.146	0.174	0.589	0.515
Refractive error of the eye	0.982	0.442	1.433	0.645	0.998	0.968	2.151	0.136
Other	0.973	0.272	2.251	0.227	1.045	0.407	0.231	0.168