Figure 2

Days of sickness absence from work in the year prior to (A) and following (B) the diagnosis of coeliac disease. The number of days of absence is compared with that in the general adult population during the same period and limited to subjects 16–64 years of age and who were not retired (all patients n₁ = 480, n₂ = 477; all controls n₁ = 2949, n₂ = 2976; female patients n₁ = 383, n₂ = 382; female controls n₁ = 1656, n₂ = 1693; male patients n₁ = 97, n₂ = 95; male controls n₁ = 1293, n₂ = 1283).