Increased Risk of Long-Term Sickness Absence, Lower Rate of Return to Work, and Higher Risk of Unemployment and Disability Pensioning for Thyroid Patients: A Danish Register-Based Cohort Study

摘要

Recent years have witnessed increased interest in the short- and long-term impact of living with thyroid disease. Thyroid dysfunction has significant impact on somatic and psychiatric morbidity (1–4), and both short- and long-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is affected by a number of thyroid diseases (5–12). However, only a few studies have evaluated the impact on the work role function.