Job strain and risk indicators for cardiovascular disease in young female nurses.

Abstract

Pickering, 1998). However, studies of women more often fail to find a job-strain effect on BP than studies of men, which Schnall et al. (1994) attributed to the lower prevalence of hypertension at the employable age in women. Social support has been found to be associated with lower BP in the majority of srudies (Uchino et al., 1996), but the effects seem to apply only to social support received from farnily and friends rather than job-related social support.Studies on male or combined male and female populations failed to find associations between job strain ànd total cholesterol qTC; Greenlund et al

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

“…29,30 It has been suggested that perceived job stress may be related to elevated plasma fibrinogen, although results are not consistent. 25,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37] In general, the dimension of job control has been more consistently related to fibrinogen concentrations than job demands, which is in line with our findings. 35,38 -40 Fewer studies have been conducted on possible associations between job stress and concentrations of CRP and SAA.…”

Adverse effects of psychosocial work factors on blood pressure: systematic review of studies on demand–control–support and effort–reward imbalance models

“…Number of studies reporting a statistically significant deleterious effect / total number of studies having these methodological characteristics (reference number) reporting a deleterious effect of job strain on blood pressure (BP) according to gender, study designs (crosssectional, prospective or case-control), BP measurements (office or ambulatory) and outcome (hypertension or BP level). (131,134,135,149,157,177) 0 / 0 0 / 1 (142) 0 /0 0 / 7 BP level 1 (138) / 7 (129,138,152,171,178,193,214) 1 (150 ) / 3 (126,150,156) 1 (180) / 3 (142,161,180) 1 (166) / 1 (166) 4 / 14…”

Description of a large-scale study design to assess work-stress-disease associations for cardiovascular disease

“…Life-style risk factors, and standard cardiovascular studies background variables must obviously be also included in this study design (see for example listing of often measured variables in Kristensen; Riese; Theorell et al) [21][22][23]. However, since many of these measures are well identified in the existing literature, in this paper we will focus discussion on less discussed measurement problems related to detection of "physiological exhaustion".…”

“…The typical presented list of risk factors for CVD (or MD or MSD) is long, with factors at many levels -physiological and social [21][22][23]. We can summarize our suspicions about why the progress has been so slow via the following critique of the existing literature that addresses the combination of questions relating to "work-stress-disease."…”

“…In Figure 2, we illustrate how a Whitehall-type design can facilitate understanding the social context of Using a broader range of measures and appropriate analytic strategies to assess exhaustion "Stress", the putative major contributor to a variety of chronic diseases, should be measured in its most intense contexts: the workplace -assessing all its complex organizational demands and social organizational constrains and limited control opportunities -also work-family links, and the broader economic security context of jobs. Life-style risk factors, and standard cardiovascular studies background variables must obviously be also included in this study design (see for example listing of often measured variables in Kristensen; Riese; Theorell et al) [21][22][23]. However, since many of these measures are well identified in the existing literature, in this paper we will focus discussion on less discussed measurement problems related to detection of "physiological exhaustion".…”