Person-related work and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a Swedish register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Person-related work requires workers to interact with individuals not employed at the workplace, such as clients and patients, and can cause emotional labour and conflict. These stressors may increase workers' risk of type 2 diabetes, but their impact may differ depending on the level of support received from colleagues. We aimed to examine the association between person-related work and the risk of type 2 diabetes, and the effect modification of social support at work.

Methods

The study population consisted of around three million people without type 2 diabetes in Sweden in 2005, who were employed and aged 30-60 years. Three dimensions of person-related work-general contact with people, emotional demands and confrontation-and social support were respectively asse

SUBMITTER: Pan KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12322397 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature