Lifestyle factors and risk of sickness absence from work: a multicohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lifestyle factors influence the risk of morbidity and mortality, but the extent to which they are associated with employees' absence from work due to illness is unclear. We examined the relative contributions of smoking, alcohol consumption, high body-mass index, and low physical activity to diagnosis-specific sickness absence.

Methods

We did a multicohort study with individual-level data of participants of four cohorts from the UK, France, and Finland. Participants' responses to a lifestyle survey were linked to records of sickness absence episodes, typically lasting longer than 9 days; for each diagnostic category, the outcome was the total number of sickness absence days per year. We estimated the associations between lifestyle factors and sickness absence by c

SUBMITTER: Virtanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220357 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature