title: Work disability before and after diabetes diagnosis: a nationwide population-based register study in Sweden.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We evaluated the risk of work disability (sick leave and disability pension) before and after diabetes diagnosis relative to individuals without diabetes during the same time period, as well as the trajectory of work disability around the diagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  This Swedish population-based cohort study with register data included 14 428 individuals with incident diabetes in 2006 and 39 702 individuals without diabetes during 2003 to 2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Work disability was substantially higher among people with diabetes (overall mean = 95 days per year over the 7 years, SD = 143) than among those without diabetes (mean = 35 days, SD = 95). The risk of work disability was slightly higher after diabetes diagnosis than before and compared with the risk of those without diabetes. The trajectory of work disability was already increasing before diagnosis, increased even more at the time of diagnosis, and leveled off after diagnosis. Individual sociodemographic characteristics and comorbid conditions contributed both to the risk and to the trajectory of work disability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although diabetes has an independent effect on work disability, sex, age, education, and comorbid conditions play a significant role.
authors: Jenni Ervasti, Marianna Virtanen, Jaana Pentti, and Tea Lallukka are with the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki and Turku, Finland. Petter Tinghög, Linnea Kjeldgård, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, and Kristina Alexanderson are with the Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Jenni
authors: J
authors: Ervasti
authors: Marianna
authors: M
authors: Virtanen
authors: Jaana
authors: J
authors: Pentti
authors: Tea
authors: T
authors: Lallukka
authors: Petter
authors: P
authors: Tinghög
authors: Linnea
authors: L
authors: Kjeldgard
authors: Ellenor
authors: E
authors: Mittendorfer-Rutz
authors: Kristina
authors: K
authors: Alexanderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D015897:Comorbidity; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010415:Pensions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012042:Registries; D012306:Risk; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D018582:Sick Leave / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology