Odds ratio (95% CI) for interstitial abnormalities and pleural plaques according to the specific imaging method (univariate analysis).

<p>Odds ratio (95% CI) for interstitial abnormalities and pleural plaques according to the specific imaging method (univariate analysis).</p

Smoking-adjusted spirometric variables in patients who presented or not with pleural plaques on CXR and/or Thin-section CT in each group of exposure.

<p>Data are mean ± standard deviation.</p><p>*p<0.050 when comparing those CXR(-) Thin-section CT (+) versus CXR(-) Thin-section CT(-).</p><p>Smoking-adjusted spirometric variables in patients who presented or not with pleural plaques on CXR and/or Thin-section CT in each group of exposure.</p

Incidence rates of asbestosis and pleural plaques in groups of decreasing levels of asbestos exposure.

<p>Note that the marked reduction in incidence of both asbestosis and pleural plaques from Groups I to IV detected by Thin-section CT (TSCT) was not found in the CXR analysis.</p

Characteristics of the study population separated by the criterion method (Thin-section CT).

<p>Data are frequency (%) or mean ± standard deviation.</p><p>*Smoking adjusted mean ± standard deviation.</p><p>^a p<0.050 comparing Asbestosis vs. Normal.</p><p>^b p<0.050 comparing Pleural plaques vs. Normal.</p><p>Characteristics of the study population separated by the criterion method (Thin-section CT).</p