text: Absence from work due to MSDs accounts for a high proportion of working days lost in EU Member 
  States. In 2015, more than half (53%) of workers with MSDs (including those with other health problems) 
  reported being absent from work during the past year, which is considerably higher than the proportion 
  of workers without health problems (32%). Workers with MSDs are not only more likely to be absent 
  from work, but (given absence) on average are also absent for a longer period. For example, 26% of 
  workers with chronic MSDs and other health problems report being absent for more than eight days 
  during the past year, which is considerably higher than the 7% for workers with no health problems. 241 
  
  Overall estimates of the burden of MSDs for the EU27 seem to be difficult, due to different recognition 
  and treatment schemes.242 The estimates of WHO/ILO and ICOH result in 850,000 and 950,000 DALYs 
  for the EU27, based on a fraction of 26.38% attributable to work; in total, MSDs are the cause of 15-20% 
  of all DALYs. 