Lifestyle-related risk factors and trajectories of work disability over 5 years in employees with diabetes: findings from two prospective cohort studies
: Virtanen M, Kivimäki M, Zins M, Dray-Spira R, Oksanen T, Ferrie JE, Okuloff A, Pentti J, Head J, Goldberg M, Vahtera J
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
: 2015
: Diabetic Medicine
: DIABETIC MEDICINE
: DIABETIC MED
: 32
: 10
: 1335
: 1341
: 7
: 0742-3071
: 1464-5491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.12787
Conclusions: The majority of employees with diabetes have low disability rates, although 10% are on a high and increasing disability trajectory. Lifestyle-related risk factors have similar associations with disability among employees with and without diabetes, except smoking which was only associated with poorer prognosis in diabetes.