Permanent work disability before and after ischaemic heart disease or stroke event: a nationwide population-based cohort study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined the risk of disability pension before and after ischaemic heart disease (IHD) or stroke event, the burden of stroke compared with IHD and which factors predicted disability pension after either event.

Design

A population-based cohort study with follow-up 5 years before and after the event. Register data were analysed with general linear modelling with binary and Poisson distributions including interaction tests for event type (IHD/stroke).

Setting and participants

All people living in Sweden, aged 25‒60 years at the first event year, who had been living in Sweden for 5 years before the event and had no indication of IHD or stroke prior to the index event in 2006‒2008 were included, except for cases in which death occurred within 30 days of the e

SUBMITTER: Ervasti J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640121 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature