Table 2

Association of employment grade with recovery from poor physical and mental health across all periods

	Person-observations	Score, mean (SD)	Recovered, N (rate*)	OR (95% CI)
	Person-observations	Score, mean (SD)	Recovered, N (rate*)	Adjusted for age, sex and ethnicity	Adjusted for all demographic factors†	Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, behaviours, BMI, risk factors‡	Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity and prevalent disease§	Multiply adjusted¶
Poor physical health (n=4699)
Employment grade
High	1872	39.3 (7.1)	965 (51.6)	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Intermediate	2193	37.4 (8.3)	1014 (46.2)	0.86 (0.75 to 0.98)	0.89 (0.78 to 1.01)	0.90 (0.79 to 1.03)	0.85 (0.75 to 0.98)	0.93 (0.81 to 1.06)
Low	634	34.4 (8.1)	246 (38.8)	0.73 (0.59 to 0.91)	0.77 (0.62 to 0.96)	0.85 (0.68 to 1.07)	0.71 (0.57 to 0.89)	0.85 (0.68 to 1.07)
P value for trend				0.002	0.013	0.086	0.001	0.142
Poor mental health (n=4584)
Employment grade
High	1896	38.8 (8.1)	955 (50.4)	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Intermediate	2142	36.9 (8.5)	1014 (47.3)	0.84 (0.74 to 0.96)	0.89 (0.78 to 1.02)	0.88 (0.77 to 1.00)	0.85 (0.74 to 0.96)	0.93 (0.81 to 1.06)
Low	546	35.6 (8.2)	234 (42.9)	0.62 (0.50 to 0.78)	0.67 (0.54 to 0.84)	0.71 (0.57 to 0.89)	0.63 (0.51 to 0.78)	0.74 (0.59 to 0.93)
P value for trend				<0.001	0.001	0.002	<0.001	0.025

Cut-point for recovery depends on age and sex.
*Rate of recovery per 100 persons.
†Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, marital status and retirement status.
‡Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, smoking habit, alcohol consumption, physical activity, BMI, systolic blood pressure and serum cholesterol.
§Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, long-standing illness, CHD, stroke and diabetes.
¶Multiply adjusted for age, sex, marital status, ethnicity, retirement status, health behaviours (smoking habit, alcohol consumption and physical activity), BMI, systolic blood pressure, serum cholesterol and prevalent disease (long-standing illness, CHD, stroke and diabetes). Missing values imputed using multiple imputation with 20 imputed datasets.
BMI, body mass index; CHD, coronary heart disease.