Table 3.

Work attendance by HIV status and time period before death for 361 HIV-positive and 167 HIV-negative miners who died from natural causes

	HIV-positive (%) time, by years before death			HIV-negative (%) time, by years before death			Final year: adjusted‡ OR or RRR (95% CI) HIV-positive versus HIV-negative
Work status	>2	Penultimate	Final	>2	Penultimate	Final
At work	78.4	76.3	61.2	81.9	76.2	72.2
Absent from work	21.6	23.7	38.8	18.1	23.8	27.8	1.70* (1.35 to 2.15)
Medical	5.7	8.6	21.8	3.6	7.5	13.2	2.05† (1.42 to 2.97)
Leave	13.4	13.2	14.4	12.9	14.7	12.8	1.34† (1.06 to 1.68)
Unauthorised	2.6	1.9	2.6	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.67† (1.19 to 2.34)
Total (person years)	669	220	191	369	85	90

^*OR for work absence, HIV-positive versus HIV-negative.

^†RR ratio for type of work absence relative to being at work, HIV-positive versus HIV-negative.

^‡Adjusted for age and calendar period.