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Manual jobs increase the risk of patients with ankylosing spondylitis withdrawing from the labour force, also when adjusted for job related withdrawal in the general population
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In 1997 we studied labour force participation among 658 Dutch patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).1 In those who had a paid job before onset of disease (n=529), age and sex adjusted withdrawal rate was 3.0 times (95% CI 2.5 to 3.6) higher than expected in the general Dutch population.2 Within patients with AS, those with a manual job had a 2.3 (95% CI 1.5 to 3.4) times increased risk of withdrawal compared with those with a non-manual job after correction for age at onset of disease, gender, educational level, and coping strategies.2 However, the question remained …