Multidrug Resistance 1 Gene Variants, Pesticide Exposure, and Increased Risk of DNA Damage

Table 1

Basic characteristics of pesticide-exposed fruit growers and controls.

Variables	Controls	Pesticide exposure
		Low
Number of subjects	141	82	113
Age (years)	49.0±0.9^∗	55.5±1.2	54.7±1.1
Gender: male (%)	68 (48.2%)*	47 (57.3%)	84 (74.3%)
Duration of pesticide exposure (years)	0	29.9±1.7	30.1±1.4
Size of orchard (ha)	0	0.8±0.1	1.7±0.1^#
Smoking habit
Currents smoker (%)	26 (18.4%)*	23 (28.0%)	33 (29.2%)
Pack-years	3.7±0.8^∗	8.2±1.7	9.4±1.5

Data represent numbers of individuals or mean ± SE for continuous variables.
* 𝑃<0.01; control group differed significantly from the high and low pesticide-exposed groups.
^#𝑃<0.01 compared with the low pesticide-exposed group.