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Participants were recruited between 2013 and 2016. Associations with ever\/never, duration, and cumulative exposure were assessed using logistic regression adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, education, smoking, alcohol consumption, sports, head or spine injury, and solvents, and was mutually adjusted for the other exposure. All analyses were repeated stratified by sex. An elevated risk was observed for having ever worked in a job with potential for electric shocks (odds ratio (OR)\u00a0=\u00a01.35, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.98, 1.86), with the strongest association for the highest level of exposure (OR\u00a0=\u00a02.01, 95% CI: 1.31, 3.09). Analysis by duration suggested a nonlinear association: Risk was increased for both short duration (&amp;lt;3 years; OR\u00a0=\u00a04.69, 95% CI: 2.25, 9.77) and long duration (&amp;gt;24 years; OR\u00a0=\u00a01.88; 95% CI: 1.05, 3.36) in a job with high level of electric shock exposure, with less pronounced associations for intermediate durations. No association with ELF-MF was found. 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