Associations of occupation, job control and job demands with intima-media thickness: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 319-326

  Fujishiro, Kaori ^a   Diez Roux, Ana V ^b   Landsbergis, Paul ^c   Baron, Sherry ^a   Barr, R Graham ^d   Kaufman, Joel D ^e   Polak, Joseph F ^f   Stukovsky, Karen Hinckley ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIRTHPLACE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCOME; INTIMA; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953833081     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.055582     Document Type: Article

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