Work stress and risk of death in men and women with and without cardiometabolic disease: a multicohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although some cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines suggest a need to manage work stress in patients with established cardiometabolic disease, the evidence base for this recommendation is weak. We sought to clarify the status of stress as a risk factor in cardiometabolic disease by investigating the associations between work stress and mortality in men and women with and without pre-existing cardiometabolic disease.

Methods

In this multicohort study, we used data from seven cohort studies in the IPD-Work consortium, initiated between 1985 and 2002 in Finland, France, Sweden, and the UK, to examine the association between work stress and mortality. Work stress was denoted as job strain or effort-reward imbalance at work. We extracted individual-level data on

SUBMITTER: Kivimaki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6105619 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature