Work stress and loss of years lived without chronic disease: an 18-year follow-up of 1.5 million employees in Denmark.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to examine the association between exposure to work stress and chronic disease incidence and loss of chronic disease-free life years in the Danish workforce. The study population included 1,592,491 employees, aged 30-59 in 2000 and without prevalent chronic diseases. We assessed work stress as the combination of job strain and effort-reward imbalance using job exposure matrices. We used Cox regressions to estimate risk of incident hospital-diagnoses or death of chronic diseases (i.e., type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, and dementia) during 18 years of follow-up and calculated corresponding chronic disease-free life expectancy from age 30 to age 75. Individuals working in occupations with high preva

SUBMITTER: Sorensen JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187572 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature