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Table 2 Distribution of number of sick-leave periods in each diagnostic category shown for persons with one to eleven different sick-leave diagnoses during the 11-year follow-up

From: The panorama of future sick-leave diagnoses among young adults initially long-term sickness absent due to neck, shoulder, or back diagnoses. An 11-year prospective cohort study

   Number of sick-leave periods in the ICD-8 categories (Chapters I-XVIII)1
Number of sick-leave diagnoses Number of subjects I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII
1 n = 2              16      
2 n = 12 6       1 9      79    49 1  
3 n = 14 12     2 2 3 33    2   28    58 1  
4 n = 35 63     35 1 1 125 25 4 10   439    100 15  
5 n = 39 166     6 24 5 301 5 15 24 1 526    211 62 2
6 n = 30 109    1 85 19 3 154 14 8 31 15 427    146 71  
7 n = 43 211 12 6   99 42 2 332 59 82 48 15 789    212 86 10
8 n = 26 168   15   93 38 20 240 37 41 34 17 699    154 80 11
9 n = 7 28 15    14 21 1 49 5 20 18 5 235 3   30 11 2
10 n = 2 9     21 2 1 11 4 11 3 2 34    32 7  
11 n = 3 17   18   27 2 11 44 22 13 4 5 58    30 6 4
Total n = 213 789 27 39 1 357 150 48 1296 171 194 174 59 3155 3 0 1,022 364 29
  1. 1See Table 1 for explanation of ICD-8 Chapters I-XVIII.
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