Observational study of potential risk factors of immersion pulmonary edema in healthy divers: exercise intensity is the main contributor

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Table 2 Estimate, standard error of estimate, confidence intervals of estimate obtained by bootstrap, z value, p value, and post hoc power are represented for fixed effects of generalized linear mixed-effects model for the negative binomial family

	Estimate	Std. error	2.5%	97.5%	z value	Pr(> \|z\|)	1-β
(Intercept)	−3.14	0.84	−4.11	−2.21	−3.74	0.000186*	1
Diving (after)	1.15	0.179	0.696	1.53	6.42	1.37 × 10⁻¹⁰*	1
Age (scaled)	−0.141	0.139	−0.414	0.126	−1.01	0.312	0.72
Smoking (yes)	−0.000678	0.279	−0.63	0.507	−0.0024	0.998	0.56
Material (SCUBA)	−0.0576	0.516	−0.898	0.602	−0.112	0.911	0.56
Total duration (scaled)	0.133	0.155	−0.167	0.397	0.857	0.392	0.69
Decompression Gas (O₂)	−0.511	0.499	−1.3	0.171	−1.02	0.306	0.76
Weight (scaled)	−0.0603	0.143	−0.408	0.271	−0.421	0.674	0.55
Height (scaled)	0.175	0.151	−0.122	0.488	1.16	0.248	0.78
Coldness (VAS)	−0.0244	0.0617	−0.208	0.0899	−0.396	0.692	0.61
Water temperature (scaled)	−0.169	0.116	−0.376	0.0491	−1.46	0.145	0.8
RPE (Borg scale)	0.172	0.0431	0.106	0.229	3.99	6.59 × 10⁻⁰⁵*	1

Diving (after) is the impact of the dive on the ULCs—examinations before and after the dive
O ₂ oxygen, SCUBA self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, VAS visual analog scale, RPE rating of perceived exertion
*Significant difference