Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Meta-Analysis of Individual-Participant Data from 47,000 Men and Women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Nyberg, Solja T ^a   Fransson, Eleonor I ^b,c,d   Heikkilä, Katriina ^a   Alfredsson, Lars ^c,e   Casini, Annalisa ^f   Clays, Els ^g   De Bacquer, Dirk ^g   Dragano, Nico ^h   Erbel, Raimund ⁱ   Ferrie, Jane E ^j,k   Hamer, Mark ^k   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^l   Kittel, France ^f   Knutsson, Anders ^m   Ladwig, Karl Heinz ⁿ   Lunau, Thorsten ^h   Marmot, Michael G ^k   Nordin, Maria ^o   Rugulies, Reiner ^p,q   Siegrist, Johannes ^h   Steptoe, Andrew ^k   Westerholm, Peter J M ^r   Westerlund, Hugo ^d   Theorell, Töres ^d   Brunner, Eric J ^k   Singh Manoux, Archana ^k,s   David Batty, G Vid ^k,t   Kivimäki, Mika ^a,k,u   more..

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^m MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^o UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^p NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^r UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^s CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; GENDER; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK;

EID: 84879259859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067323     Document Type: Article

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