The majority of the studies reported a high burden of work-related outcomes among inflammatory bowel disease patients regardless of the methodology used .
Inflammatory bowel disease patients experience a high burden in work-related outcomes .
BACKGROUND & AIMS Inflammatory bowel disease has considerable effects on work-related outcomes and leads to high societal costs due to sick leave and disability pension .
The aims of this study were to systematic ally review evidence on work-related outcomes that are relevant to productivity losses and to evaluate whether medical or surgical interventions have a positive impact on patients ' work ability .
Work disability in inflammatory bowel disease patients 10 years after disease onset: results from the IBSEN Study
Objective To compare the work disability ( WD ) rate in inflammatory bowel disease ( IBD ) patients 10 years after disease onset , with the WD rate in the background population , and to assess whether clinical or demographic factors in the early disease course could predict WD after 10 years disease . Design A large , population -based inception cohort ( the Inflammatory Bowel in South Eastern Norway cohort ) was prospect ively followed up at 1 , 5 and 10 years after diagnosis . At the 10-year follow-up data on WD were collected . Data on  disability pension ( DP )  in the background population were retrieved from public data bases . We calculated overall and age-st and ardised relative risks ( RR ) for  DP .  Logistic regression analysis was used to examine predictive factors . Results A total of 518 patients completed the 10-year follow-up ( response rate 83.5 % ) . The overall disability rate in the IBD population was 18.8 % , and the RR was 1.8 ( 95 % CI 1.4 to 2.3 ) for ulcerative colitis ( UC ) and 2.0 ( 95 % CI 1.4 to 2.7 ) for Crohn 's disease ( CD ) . The RR for DP was highest in patients aged below 40 years while patients aged over 60 years had no increased RR . Steroid treatment at the 1-year follow-up predicted WD after 10 years disease in both CD and UC . In UC , increased C-reactive protein ( CRP ) or erythrocyte sedimentation rate ( ESR ) at diagnosis , early colectomy , and more than two relapses during the first year of the disease also predicted WD . Conclusion Ten years after disease onset IBD patients had an increased RR for DP as compared with the background population . The youngest patients had the highest RR . Markers of severe disease course predicted WD
The majority of the studies reported a high burden of work-related outcomes among inflammatory bowel disease patients regardless of the methodology used .
Inflammatory bowel disease patients experience a high burden in work-related outcomes .
BACKGROUND & AIMS Inflammatory bowel disease has considerable effects on work-related outcomes and leads to high societal costs due to sick leave and disability pension .
The aims of this study were to systematic ally review evidence on work-related outcomes that are relevant to productivity losses and to evaluate whether medical or surgical interventions have a positive impact on patients ' work ability .