However, we observed more frequent reported sick days because of infections in the first 6 years of life associated with the risk of glioma and possibly embryonal brain tumour.
The final model identified enabling factors (having health insurance, a primary health care provider to go to when sick and more frequent visits to a doctor in the last year) as the strongest predictor of HBV screening (coefficient = 0.470, t = 7.618, p < .001).001
If sicker patients had more frequent clinical visits, then their physicians may have been more likely to diagnose diabetes, and this would mean that the RRs we report overestimate true values.
This may represent in the U.K., relative to the U.S., earlier detection of diabetes, less detection bias (diagnosing diabetes in sicker patients with more frequent medical attention), or better glycemic control (for which evidence linking better control to mortality in cystic fibrosis is sparse).
Since sick leaves are far more frequent for low back pain than other MSDs, a sickleave due to LBP might also be beneficial for the recovery of other musculoskeletal complaints.
On the other hand, those with thrombocytopenia had more frequent chronic heart and liver disease, were sicker, and had higher rates of severe sepsis, septic shock, and invasive mechanical ventilation and ICU admission than the rest of the population.
