Risk factors for and consequences of being sickness absent/disability pensioned: a prospective twin cohort study
The overall objective of the STODS (Swedish Twin study of Disability pension and Sickness absence) is to investigate the importance of genetic and environmental/psychosocial factors for sickness absence and for disability pension in a nationwide, population-based twin sample. Special focus is on sickness absence and disability pensions due to musculoskeletal and mental diagnoses, which accounts for approximately 70% of the total sickness absence. In this project we are able to study both environmental and genetic factors using data from the Swedish Twin Registry in a large prospective project. Approximately 120,000 twins born between 1925 and 1990 are included and for these twins register as well as questionnaire data have been obtained.
