Prevalence, Indirect Costs, and Risk Factors for Work Disability in Patients with Crohn's Disease at a Tertiary Care Center in Rio de Janeiro.
Renata de Sá Brito FróesAndré da Luz MoreiraAntonio José de V CarneiroJessica P L MoreiraRonir R LuizAdriana Maria Hilu de Barros MoreiraCamila Cesar MonneratHeitor Siffert Pereira de SouzaAna Teresa Pugas CarvalhoPublished in: Digestive diseases and sciences (2020)
In Rio de Janeiro, work disability affects one-sixth of CD patients, and risk factors are associated with disease duration and complications. In the context of increasing prevalence, as this disability compromises young patients after a relatively short period of disease, the socioeconomic burden of CD is expected to increase in the future.