Table 3.

Average wage development 1998–2000, EURO-2000 price level.

Disease	Control group			Patient group			Difference in average wage development
	N 2000	Average wage 1998	Average wage 2000	N 2000	Average wage 1998	Average wage 2000
Coronary heart disease	17,219	28,930	29,913	2,898	28,197	29,100	80
Stroke	8,609	27,956	28,737	1,298	31,434	31,257	958
Lung cancer	2,571	26,706	27,154	110	25,746	27,816	−1,622
COPD	5,034	25,682	26,258	794	25,041	25,527	89