Abstract
We read with interest the article by Rautio et al. which has been recently published online in the journal Primary Care Diabetes. This article objectively quantifies the relationship between varying exposure to unemployment and impaired glucose metabolism, suggesting a relation of unemployment and type 2 diabetes in men.
We recognize that, that in each group of "unemployed", as they are defined in the article, there may be included individuals with a diametrically different number of unemployed days (for instance in the group of LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO1 year there can be an individual with 1 day, but also 268 days spent unemployed, that is, people with completely different probable impact of unemployment). We believe that such an analysis could bring illustrative and likely even more convincing results than this pioneering, interesting and beneficial work has already shown.