ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Allostatic Load and Effort-Reward Imbalance: Associations over the Working-Career.
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- Towards a consensus definition of allostatic load: a multi-cohort, multi-system, multi-biomarker individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Pooled it
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- Stress and cardiovascular disease: an update.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2024Review
- Effort-reward and overcommitment at work and psychiatric symptoms in healthcare professionals: The mediation role of allostatic load.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Aging on the Job? The Association Between Occupational Characteristics and Accelerated Biological Aging.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Work-Related Psychosocial Factors and Global Cognitive Function: Are Telomere Length and Low-Grade Inflammation Potential Mediators of This Association?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Predict, prevent and manage moral injuries in Canadian frontline healthcare workers and leaders facing the COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol of a mixed methods study.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
- Adverse employment histories and allostatic load: associations over the working life.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2022Article
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- Minimally-invasive methods for examining biological changes in response to chronic stress: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies · 2020Article
- Adverse employment histories and health functioning: the CONSTANCES study.International journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Allostatic load and physiological responses to work stress: an integrative review.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMTArticle
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Abstract
Although associations between work stressors and stress-related biomarkers have been reported in cross-sectional studies, the use of single time measurements of work stressors could be one of the reasons for inconsistent associations. This study examines whether repeated reports of work stress towards the end of the working career predicts allostatic load, a measure of chronic stress related physiological processes. Data from waves 2 to 6 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) were analysed, with a main analytical sample of 2663 older adults (aged 50+) who had at least one measurement of effort-reward imbalance between waves 2-6 and a measurement of allostatic load at wave 6. Cumulative work stress over waves 2-6 were measured by the effort-reward imbalance model. ELSA respondents who had reported two or more occasions of imbalance had a higher (0.3) estimate of the allostatic load index than those who did not report any imbalance, controlling for a range of health and socio-demographic factors, as well as allostatic load at baseline. More recent reports of imbalance were significantly associated with a higher allostatic load index, whereas reports of imbalance from earlier waves of ELSA were not. The accumulation of work related stressors could have adverse effects on chronic stress biological processes.
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