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title: Research Review October 2019
description: Research review keeps you up to date with the latest peer-reviewed work on health and productivity.
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# [Research Review October 2019](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/research-review-1019)

 Written by [IBI](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/author/ibi) | Nov 8, 2019 3:00:06 PM

 

**Research review keeps you up to date with the latest peer-reviewed work on health and productivity. Here’s a sample of what caught our attention that you may have missed in October.**

### In This Issue:

- [Family Leave and Return-to-Work Experiences of Physician Mothers](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/research-review-1019?hs_amp=true#a)
- [Productivity loss due to overweight and obesity: a systematic review of indirect costs](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/research-review-1019?hs_amp=true#b)
- [Association of a Workplace Sales Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Employee Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Health](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/research-review-1019?hs_amp=true#c)
- [Exhaustion and Impaired Work Performance in the Workplace: Associations With Presenteeism and Absenteeism](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/research-review-1019?hs_amp=true#d)

*“A substantial number of women physicians working in a variety of specialties at all levels of training across the United States needed and wanted more support for maternity leave and return to work.”  
*

Family Leave and Return-to-Work Experiences of Physician Mothers

[**JAMA Network Open**](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752815)

*“Reviewing 50 peer-reviewed, mostly good quality studies, researchers find that ‘compared with employees with normal weight, individuals with obesity missed more time from work and worked less productively, resulting in higher indirect costs.’ ”  
*

Productivity loss due to overweight and obesity: a systematic review of indirect costs

**[BMJ Open](https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/10/e014632)**

*“A workplace ban on sugar-sweetened beverages, along with a motivational intervention, reduced participants’ sugar intake and waist circumference.”  
*

Association of a Workplace Sales Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Employee Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Health

**[JAMA Internal Medicine](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2753425)**

*“Exhaustion and burnout among Swedish employees were not associated with more absence—but did predict higher levels of impairment on the job.”  
*

Exhaustion and Impaired Work Performance in the Workplace: Associations With Presenteeism and Absenteeism.

**[JOEM](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31478995)**

 

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