Effects of self-rated health on sick leave, disability pension, hospital admissions and mortality. A population-based longitudinal study of nearly 15,000 observations among Swedish women and men

Table 3 Determinants of sick leave in multivariate analysis

	Women			Men
	Beta	t	p	Beta	t	p
SRH (1–7)	−13.2	−3.9	<0.0001	−9.5	−2.7	<0.01
Age (years)	−2.9	−9.1	<0.0001	−1.5	−1.5	<0.0001
Education (1–4)				−14.1	−3.4	<0.001
Leisure time physical activity				−17.1	−2.6	<0.01
Complaint score	4.5	4.7	<0.0001	2.4	2.3	<0.05
Year of investigation	−8.1	−3.3	<0.001	42.4	3.3	<0.001
Smoking	35.6	3.6	<0.0005	23.0	2.3	<0.05

Factors related to number of sick leave days during follow up among 2959 women and 3243 men with complete data available from 1986, based on multiple linear regression analysis.

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