Service discharges among US Army personnel with selected musculoskeletal and skin conditions: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the probability of discharge from military service among soldiers following an incident diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriasis or systemic lupus erythematous.

Methods

All soldiers on active duty in the US Army between January 2014 and June 2017 were included in a retrospective cohort analysis. Termination from service was ascertained using personnel records. Diagnostic codes were used to identify incident cases of the four musculoskeletal and skin diseases and, for comparison, diabetes mellitus (DM). Time to discharge was modelled using sex stratified multivariate survival analysis.

Results

The analysis included 657 417 individuals with a total of 1.2 million person-years of observation. An elevated risk

SUBMITTER: Nelson DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9577895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature