Psychosocial job characteristics and plasma fibrinogen in Japanese male and female workers: the Jichi Medical School cohort study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 468-476

  Hirokawa, Kumi ^a   Tsutsumi, Akizumi ^b   Kayaba, Kazunori ^c  

^a FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen; Gender difference; Japanese worker; Job control; Job demand; Job strain

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; JAPAN; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 43949134862     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.09.035     Document Type: Article

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