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Experts highlight effects of job stress on health
10 October 2007 16:08:29
Individuals can reportedly double their risk of heart problems if they have already had a heart attack and they are stressed at work.
Scientists from University Laval in Quebec asked 972 men and women aged 35 to 59 years who had returned to work after a heart attack to rate their job strain.
After almost six years they returned to the participants and found that 206 of them had a confirmed recurrent coronary heart disease (CHD) event.
Commenting that chronic job strain was associated with a two-fold increase in the risk of recurrent CHD events after taking other factors into account, the researchers advised that patients and doctors put a greater emphasis on evaluating work stress.
"These results suggest that preventive interventions aimed at reducing job strain might have a significant impact on recurrent CHD events," they wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
A recent survey revealed the impact of Britain's long working hours on people's health.
Legal and General questioned over 2,000 people about their health anxieties over the last three months and found that over a fifth felt stressed by their daily routines.
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