- Stress is known to have a number of negative health effects, including on your heart.
- One of the most common sources of stress can be your job.
- A new study links specific types of work stress to coronary heart disease.
Time spent at work can be, and often is, the most stressful part of the day for a significant portion of adults.
Frequently, the results of decades of stressful work is a host of health issues, not the least of which can be coronary heart disease.
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The results?
High stress work can double the chances of men developing heart disease, which can cause heart attacks and other complications.
This researchers looked at two types of work stress.
The first was job strain, which is defined as work where the demands on the worker are high and the worker has low control over their own work.
Active jobs have both high demand and control. Passive jobs have both low demand and low control. When demands are low and control is high, it’s considered a low strain job.
Secondly, researchers measured effort-reward imbalance. This method measured whether the demands of a person’s job were aligned with their compensation, including such things as salaries, promotion opportunities, and job stability.
“This study expands on our prior knowledge of the risk of heart events related to work stress,” Dr. Joseph Ebinger, a clinical cardiologist and director of Clinical Analytics at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, told Medical News Today.
“Specifically, the researchers looked at the association not just of work stress or [effort-reward imbalance] alone, but the risk when these occur together,” said Ebinger, who was not involved in the study.
Some workers in the study experienced job strain, some…
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