Lifetime employment, tobacco use, and alcohol consumption trajectories and cardiovascular diseases in old age.

ABSTRACT: Despite the great advances of life course epidemiology studies during the last decade in understanding the general health effects of employment trajectories, research has yet to evaluate the effects of employment trajectories along with other major risk factors, such as tobacco and alcohol consumption, on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)-the main cause of deaths worldwide. This is highly relevant, since health advantages in one domain (e.g., being a permanent formal full-time worker) may offset health disadvantages in other domains (e.g., being a regular smoker or alcohol consumer); conversely, disadvantages in both domains may interact, leading to even greater health risks. Considering these knowledge gaps, this research has two main objectives: (1) to reconstruct simultaneous employment, t

SUBMITTER: Madero-Cabib I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7848642 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature