Lifestyle-related risk factors and trajectories of work disability over 5 years in employees with diabetes: findings from two prospective cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine work disability trajectories among employees with and without diabetes and identify lifestyle-related factors associated with these trajectories.

Methods

We assessed work disability using records of sickness absence and disability pension among participants with diabetes and age- sex-, socio-economic status- and marital status-matched controls in the Finnish Public Sector Study (1102 cases; 2204 controls) and the French GAZEL study (500 cases; 1000 controls), followed up for 5 years. Obesity, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption were assessed at baseline and the data analysed using group-based trajectory modelling.

Results

Five trajectories described work disability: 'no/very low disability' (41.1% among cases and 48.0% among controls); '

SUBMITTER: Virtanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4975699 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature