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. 2013 Sep 4;13:803. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-803

Table 4.

Effects of age at diagnosis, year of diagnosis and illness duration (years post-diagnosis) on labour participation status, specified for diagnostic groups, estimates and standard errors (se)

 
Cardiov.
Cancer
Diabetes
Asthma/ COPD
Musculo-skeletal
Neurological
Digestive
Other
  estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1 estimate (se)1
Random effects
Age at diagnosis (2)
2.30 (1.15)
1.18 (0.75)
2.57 (1.17)
0.76 (0.35)
0.81 (0.41)
0.18 (0.13)
0.00 (0.00)
0.94 (0.44)
Year of diagnosis (2)
0.00 (0.00)
0.17 (0.25)
0.00 (0.00)
0.00 (0.00)
0.00 (0.00)
0.00 (0.00)
0.00 (0.00)
0.05 (0.06)
Individual (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
constraint (1)
Fixed effects
Illness duration
- In years
−0.10 (0.03)
0.07 (0.12)
−0.08 (0.03)
0.00003 (0.02)
−0.04 (0.02)
0.03 (0.02)
−0.03 (0.03)
−0.03 (0.02)
- In years squared
0.002 (0.003)
−0.04 (0.02)
0.001 (0.002)
0.002 (0.002)
0.002 (0.002)
−0.002 (0.002)
−0.0009 (0.004)
0.002 (0.002)
- In years cubed −0.000002 (0.0001) −0.005 (0.002) −0.00002 (0.00005) −0.00007 (0.00004) −0.00005 (0.00005) 0.00001 (0.00004) 0.00002 (0.0002) −0.00004 (0.00003)

1model includes a constant for each chronic disease type and corrected for observation year, gender, education level, marital status, region and urbanisation level of place of residence.

In bold: significant estimates (Student’s T > 1.96, P < .05).