Social support at work and the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke in women and men

André-Petersson, Lena; Engström, Gunnar; Hedblad, Bo; Janzon, Lars

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.10.020

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“…This is somewhat in line with previous studies. Regarding high strain, two longitudinal studies have shown non-significant results with mostly marginally increased risk estimates (13,18), and in another two studies there was moderately, still non-significant, increased risk (14,19). In a Japanese study there are quite high risk estimates for most dimensions of the JDC model, although only significant for high strain in all types of stroke (21).…”

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“…Previous studies have shown gender differences with respect to the effect of psychosocial stress to stroke (15,16,18,21), but we were unable to investigate this since there were few women in our sample. Hence, it is also uncertain if the results apply to women.…”

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“…All items were scored using a scale (1-5) ranging from "seldom" to "often". Job control consisted of three items (range 3-15), job demand of four items (range [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], and social support of two items (range 2-10). In order to reduce the amount of missing data, control and demand were imputed using the mean of the remaining values for subjects with only one missing item.…”

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“…One study found no association between psychosocial job exposure and increased risk of stroke (13). Studies examining the importance of social support as predictor for stroke are even sparser, with only one prospective cohort study, which found that low social support was associated with stroke for women, but not men (18).…”

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Psychosocial work environment and risk of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease: a prospective longitudinal study of 75 236 construction workers

Schiöler¹,

Söderberg²,

Rosengren³

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Scand J Work Environ Health

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Psychosocial work environment and risk of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease: a prospective longitudinal study of 75 236 construction workers by Schiöler L, Söderberg M, Rosengren A, Järvholm B, Torén K Ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease are common and costly for society, and hence knowledge about modifiable risk factors is important. This study of a large cohort of relatively young and socially homogenous construction workers contributes to the knowledge regarding the association with the psychosocial work environment. The study found an association between stroke and active jobs and high job demands. Original article Scand J Work Environ Health. 2015;41(3):280-287. doi:10.5271/sjweh.3491 Psychosocial work environment and risk of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease: a prospective longitudinal study of 75 236 construction workers Objectives The present study aimed to investigate whether different dimensions of psychosocial stress, as measured by the job demand-control model (JDC), were associated with increased risks of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD). AffiliationMethods A cohort of 75 236 male construction workers was followed from 1989-2004. Exposure to psychosocial stress was determined by a questionnaire answered in 1989-1993. Events of ischemic stroke and CHD were found by linkage to the Swedish Causes of Death and National Patient registers. Hazard ratios (HR) were obtained from Cox regression models, adjusted for age, smoking habits, body mass index and systolic blood pressure.Results There were 1884 cases of CHD and 739 cases of ischemic stroke. Regarding ischemic stroke, no association was found between job demands [HR 1.12, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.89-1.40, highest versus lowest quintile] or job control (HR 1.04, 95% CI 0.82-1.32, lowest versus highest quintile). Regarding CHD, job demands were associated to CHD (HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.02-1.37, highest vs. lowest quintile), but no consistent trend was seen among quintiles. The results were inconsistent in relation to job control. The division of JDC into four categories showed no significant associations with either ischemic stroke or CHD.Conclusions This exploratory study showed no significant associations between psychosocial work environment and ischemic stroke, and the associations between job demands and control and CHD were inconsistent and weak. The combination of job control and job demand showed no significant associations with either ischemic stroke or CHD.

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Psychosocial work environment and risk of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease: a prospective longitudinal study of 75 236 construction workers

Schiöler¹,

Söderberg²,

Rosengren³

et al. 2015

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“…Patrón de Conducta Tipo A (PCTA), y su componente más nocivo: la hostilidad (Fayyaz & Besharat, 2011;Friedman, 1991;Friedman & Rosenman, 1974;Julkunen & Ahlström, 2006;Richter et al, 2011;Sparagon et al, 2001;Vella & Friedman, 2007), considerados como factores agravantes de la enfermedad coronaria, y otros procesos emocionales, como el apoyo social (André-Peterson, Engström, Hedblad, Janzon, & Rosvall, 2007;Gramer & Reitbauer, 2010;B. R. Sarason, Sarason, & Pierce, 1990;Shumacker & Czjakowski, 1994;Stansfeld & Fuhrer, 2002).…”

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