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Job strain and cardiovascular disease risk factors: meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 47,000 men and women.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Mapping neighbourhood-level drivers of type 2 diabetes for precision public health using predictive and causal machine learning.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Cardiovascular disease risk factor prevalence among police officials: findings from a cross-sectional study in Kerala, India.Journal of occupational health · 2024Article
- Validation of the Demand Control Support Questionnaire for European Portuguese.Portuguese journal of public health · 2023Article
- Job stress, a source of hypertension among workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundJob strain is associated with an increased coronary heart disease risk, but few large-scale studies have examined the relationship of this psychosocial characteristic with the biological risk factors that potentially mediate the job strain - heart disease association. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL
findingsWe pooled cross-sectional, individual-level data from eight studies comprising 47,045 participants to investigate the association between job strain and the following cardiovascular disease risk factors: diabetes, blood pressure, pulse pressure, lipid fractions, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, obesity, and overall cardiovascular disease risk as indexed by the Framingham Risk Score. In age-, sex-, and socioeconomic status-adjusted analyses, compared to those without job strain, people with job strain were more likely to have diabetes (odds ratio 1.29; 95% CI: 1.11-1.51), to smoke (1.14; 1.08-1.20), to be physically inactive (1.34; 1.26-1.41), and to be obese (1.12; 1.04-1.20). The association between job strain and elevated Framingham risk score (1.13; 1.03-1.25) was attributable to the higher prevalence of diabetes, smoking and physical inactivity among those reporting job strain.
conclusionsIn this meta-analysis of work-related stress and cardiovascular disease risk factors, job strain was linked to adverse lifestyle and diabetes. No association was observed between job strain, clinic blood pressure or blood lipids.
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