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Physical sports curtail sick leave
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Companies would benefit by encouraging employees to take part in physical sports, reducing sick leave, according to a prospective study. Physically demanding sports lowered sickness absence among workers in industrial, administrative, and service sectors and especially those in sedentary jobs, the cohort study in the Netherlands has confirmed.
For workers with sedentary jobs risk of absence was less if they had engaged in sport, though not frequently, compared with never doing sport, after adjustment for age, sex, alcohol intake, and smoking. They also had a better chance of recovery—within five days—but clocked up a higher proportion of short absences.
Mean duration of sick leave was significantly lower and about 20 days less at baseline for workers who practised sport compared with those who did not or those who had never done so in their lifetime. The largest differences occurred in jobs with a large sedentary component, at 25 and 50
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