Table 3.

Relative risk of exit from paid employment of workers with a chronic disease with multiple favourable or adverse changes of at least 1 SD compared with those without any change (total population, n=4820, observations 9532)

	% total study population	% exit from paid employment between Tn+1 and Tn+2	Model relative risk (95% CI)
No changes	52.7	6.3	1
Three or more favourable changes	0.7	10.0	1.25 (0.49 to 3.18)
Two favourable changes	2.8	8.1	1.29 (0.75 to 2.21)
One favourable change	15.5	7.9	1.33 (1.03 to 1.72)
One adverse change	16.4	8.7	1.54 (1.21 to 1.98)
Two adverse changes	3.2	10.7	1.75 (1.10 to 2.78)
Three or more adverse changes	0.6	23.3	6.06 (2.83 to 12.98)
Both favourable and adverse changes	8.0	9.4	1.48 (1.06 to 2.05)

Adjusted for age, sex, educational level, contract hours, multimorbidity and marital status.