Hypertension Is Not the Link Between Job Strain and Coronary Heart Disease in the Whitehall II Study

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1146-1153

  Kivimäki, Mika ^a,b   Head, Jenny ^a   Ferrie, Jane E ^a   Shipley, Martin J ^a   Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Vahtera, Jussi ^b   Marmot, Michael G ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

epidemiology; Hypertension; myocardial ischemia; occupational health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 35348899393     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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