The Impact of Obesity on Illness Absence and Productivity in an Industrial Population of Petrochemical Workers

Tsai, Shan P.; Ahmed, Farah; Wendt, Judy K.; Bhojani, Faiyaz A.; Donnelly, Robin

doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.07.091

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“…Out of these, a total of 13 longitudinal studies met the inclusion criteria. [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] One publication 30 described a study that was described partly in two earlier publications. 27,28 Although the most recent publication slightly differed from the other publications in that it combined the study populations of the two earlier ones and added another oil refinery, it did not provide additional data that were relevant to this review.…”

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The relationship between overweight and obesity, and sick leave: a systematic review

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between overweight and obesity and sick leave. Design: Systematic, qualitative review. Literature search: A search in diverse databases was performed. Studies were considered as relevant if they were longitudinal in design and investigated the relationship between overweight and obesity and sick leave. Data extraction: The methodological quality of the studies was evaluated with a quality criteria list. To draw conclusions, a bestevidence synthesis was applied.Results: Thirteen studies were included. Four out of seven found overweight to be a predictor of long-term sick leave, whereas the remaining three showed a positive trend, but did not observe significance. Of the five studies investigating the relationship between overweight and short-term sick leave, inconsistent results were shown. Seven out of eight studies investigating the relationship with long-term sick leave found obesity as a significant predictor of long-term sick leave. In contrast, there were inconsistent results between the five studies examining the relationship between obesity and short spells of sick leave. Conclusions: Although this review found inconclusive evidence for a relationship between overweight and sick leave, a clear trend was discerned in that overweight was a predictor of especially long spells (47 days) of sick leave. As regards obesity, there was strong evidence for a positive relationship with sick leave because of the consistent finding that obesity was a significant predictor of long-term sick leave.

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“…It is difficult to compare the magnitude of absenteeism across studies because of the different methodologies used; however, a study reported that compared with a normal-weight employee, an overweight/obese employee lost an additional 3.73 days of work per year, with 36% of illness-related absences resulting from body habitus. 160 Nationwide, annual estimates of this loss in productivity range from $3.38 billion to $6.38 billion. 161 One investigator examined disability and reported that for men, being obese increased the probability of receiving disability income by 6.92%; for women, the increased probability was 5.64%.…”

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Value of Primordial and Primary Prevention for Cardiovascular Disease

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Burke³

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Circulation

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Abstract-The process of atherosclerosis may begin in youth and continue for decades, leading to both nonfatal and fatal cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction, stroke, and sudden death. With primordial and primary prevention, cardiovascular disease is largely preventable. Clinical trial evidence has shown convincingly that pharmacological treatment of risk factors can prevent events. The data are less definitive but also highly suggestive that appropriate public policy and lifestyle interventions aimed at eliminating tobacco use, limiting salt consumption, encouraging physical exercise, and improving diet can prevent events. There has been concern about whether efforts aimed at primordial and primary prevention provide value (ie, whether such interventions are worth what we pay for them). Although questions about the value of therapeutics for acute disease may be addressed by cost-effectiveness analysis, the long time frames involved in evaluating preventive interventions make cost-effectiveness analysis difficult and necessarily flawed. Nonetheless, cost-effectiveness analyses reviewed in this policy statement largely suggest that public policy, community efforts, and pharmacological intervention are all likely to be cost-effective and often cost saving compared with common benchmarks. The high direct medical care and indirect costs of cardiovascular disease-approaching $450 billion a year in 2010 and projected to rise to over $1 trillion a year by 2030 -make this a critical medical and societal issue. Prevention of cardiovascular disease will also provide great value in developing a healthier, more productive society. (Circulation. 2011;124:967-990.)

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“…In addition, obese employees miss more work and have higher costs in the areas of disability, workers' compensation, sick leave, and other health-related absences. 18,[23][24][25][36][37][38][39][40][41] Previous studies of sick leave costs used salary averages to calculate costs rather than the individual employee's actual salary or actual sick leave payments, and all but two sick leave absence studies 19,32 used imputed or self-reported sick leave days.…”

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Cohort Analysis Assessing Medical and Nonmedical Cost Associated With Obesity in the Workplace

Kleinman

Abouzaid

Andersen

et al. 2014

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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The Impact of Obesity on Illness Absence and Productivity in an Industrial Population of Petrochemical Workers

Cited by 43 publications

References 23 publications

The relationship between overweight and obesity, and sick leave: a systematic review

The relationship between overweight and obesity, and sick leave: a systematic review

Value of Primordial and Primary Prevention for Cardiovascular Disease

Cohort Analysis Assessing Medical and Nonmedical Cost Associated With Obesity in the Workplace

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