Allostatic load and work conditions

Schnorpfeil, Pia; Noll, Alexander; Schulze, Renate; Ehlert, Ulrike; Frey, Karl; Fischer, Joachim E.

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00407-0

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“…Elevated concentrations of CRP have been found in people with higher job demands. 41 In the Whitehall study, however, no associations were found between plasma levels of CRP and job demands, job control, or social support. 42 Based on our results, we are unable to show any relation between job stress dimensions and concentrations of CRP and SAA.…”

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confidence: 87%

Associations Between Dimensions of Job Stress and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Infection

Clays

Bacquer²,

Delanghe³

et al. 2005

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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• Identify, in this study of male employees without clinical coronary heart disease, any associations between parameters of job stress (perceived demands and control, social support at work) and purported biological markers of inflammation.• Explain whether and how these dimensions of job stress appeared to be related to infections, including some found in previous studies to possibly be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD).• Describe possible ways in which perceived job stress might be linked with CVD. (J Occup Environ Med. 2005;47:878-883)

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Associations Between Dimensions of Job Stress and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Infection

Clays

Bacquer²,

Delanghe³

et al. 2005

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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“…Cut-points defined by quartiles Seeman et al (1997Seeman et al ( , 2001Seeman et al ( , 2002, Seeman, Crimmins, et al (2004), Seeman, Glei, et al (2004), Kubzansky et al (1999), Karlamangla et al (2002Karlamangla et al ( , 2014, Schnorpfeil et al (2003), Weinstein et al (2003), Hampson et al (2009), Lipowicz et al (2014, Riva et al (2014), Barboza Solís et al (2015), Gale et al (2015), Horan and Widom (2015), McClure et al (2015), Zilioli et al (2015), Hansen et al (2016), Kusano et al (2016), and Robertson and Watts (2016) Cut-points defined by deciles Goldman et al (2005), Glei et al (2007), and Hwang et al (2014) Cut-points defined using clinical criteria Seeman et al (2008), Hampson et al (2009), Bird et al (2010 and Rosenberg et al (2014) Cut-points defined using a combination of clinical criteria and either deciles or quartiles (2015), Gale et al (2015), and Robertson and Watts (2016) Use of two-tailed cut-points Hampson et al (2009) and Hwang et al (2014) Use of recursive partitioning to calculate allostatic load Gruenewald et al (2006) Allostatic load scored by system rather than by biomarkers Karlamangla et al (2014), Seeman et al (2014), Gay et al (2015), and Zilioli et al (2015) Calculated allostatic...…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sex differences in ALIs also are reported, but are sample dependent. Some studies report men having significantly higher allostatic load than women (Fernandez et al, 2015;Gale et al, 2015;Mattei et al, 2010;Robertson & Watts, 2016;Schnorpfeil et al, 2003), while others report women having significantly higher allostatic load than men (Crews, 2007;Kusano et al, 2016;Seeman et al, 2014). Theoretically, stressful experiences directly increase allostatic load (Goldman, Glei, Seplaki, Liu, & Weinstein, 2005;Seeman et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Allostatic load and biological anthropology

Edes

Crews

2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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Multiple stressors affect developing and adult organisms, thereby partly structuring their phenotypes. Determining how stressors influence health, well-being, and longevity in human and nonhuman primate populations are major foci within biological anthropology. Although much effort has been devoted to examining responses to multiple environmental and sociocultural stressors, no holistic metric to measure stress-related physiological dysfunction has been widely applied within biological anthropology. Researchers from disciplines outside anthropology are using allostatic load indices (ALIs) to estimate such dysregulation and examine life-long outcomes of stressor exposures, including morbidity and mortality. Following allostasis theory, allostatic load represents accumulated physiological and somatic damage secondary to stressors and senescent processes experienced over the lifespan. ALIs estimate this wear-and-tear using a composite of biomarkers representing neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune systems. Across samples, ALIs are associated significantly with multiple individual characteristics (e.g., age, sex, education, DNA variation) of interest within biological anthropology. They also predict future outcomes, including aspects of life history variation (e.g., survival, lifespan), mental and physical health, morbidity and mortality, and likely health disparities between groups, by stressor exposures, ethnicity, occupations, and degree of departure from local indigenous life ways and integration into external and commodified ones. ALIs also may be applied to similar stress-related research areas among nonhuman primates. Given the reports from multiple research endeavors, here we propose ALIs may be useful for assessing stressors, stress responses, and stress-related dysfunction, current and long-term cognitive function, health and well-being, and risk of early mortality across many research programs within biological anthropology. K E Y W O R D Saging, allostasis, frailty, growth and development, nonhuman primates, senescence, stress | I N T R O D U C T I O NTraditional research foci within biological anthropology include variations in stress, morbidity, and mortality (for reviews, see Ice & James, 2007;Little, 2010). Despite this long-term focus, the field continues to pursue a reliable, relatively easy to apply metric for assessing lifetime stress and stress-related outcomes. We suggest incorporating the theory of allostasis and methods for assessing allostatic load within anthropological theory and methodology to aid in closing this gap. As a theory, allostasis was developed to explain how mammalian physiological responses to stressors in their environments evolved to maximize the probability of survival while limiting somatic damage (Korte, Koolhaas, Wingfield, & McEwen, 2005;McEwen & Stellar, 1993;McEwen & Wingfield, 2003;Sterling, 2004Sterling, , 2012Sterling & Eyer, 1988). Unfortunately, such beneficial defensive responses come at a cost and, over time, repeated allostatic activi...

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“…The researchers found that higher scores on positive relationship functioning, as well as lower numbers of children and fewer hours of work, were associated with healthier cortisol rhythms. A second study of German workers found that those workers experiencing high social support had healthier cor-tisol patterns compared to those with low social support (Schnorpfeil et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 96%

Positive Social Interactions and the Human Body at Work: Linking Organizations and Physiology

Heaphy

Dutton

2008

AMR

464

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Human physiological systems are highly responsive to positive social interactions, but the organizational importance of this finding largely has been unexplored. After reviewing extant research, we illustrate how consideration of the physiology of positive social interactions at work opens new research questions about how positive social interactions affect human capacity and how organizational contexts affect employee health and physiological resourcefulness. We also address the practical implications of integrating physiological data into organizational research. Our paper invites a fuller consideration of how employees' bodies are affected by everyday work interactions and, in so doing, encourages a stronger tie between human physiology and organizational research.

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Allostatic load and work conditions

Cited by 149 publications

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Associations Between Dimensions of Job Stress and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Infection

Associations Between Dimensions of Job Stress and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Infection

Allostatic load and biological anthropology

Positive Social Interactions and the Human Body at Work: Linking Organizations and Physiology

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