Dr. Albert noted, “elevated job strain, a form of psychological stress, has long term cardiovascular health effects in women<\/strong> and could suggest the need for health care providers to incorporate assessment of and identification of useful interventions that minimize the effects of job strain”.<\/p>\n The study monitored over 22,000 female health professionals in the US over 10 years. Based on self-reported job characteristics, the researchers found that higher job strain was correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n Citation: Slopen N, Glynn RJ, Buring JE, Lewis TT, Williams DR, et al. (2012) Job Strain, Job Insecurity, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Women’s Health Study: Results from a 10-Year Prospective Study. PLoS ONE<\/em> 7(7): e40512. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0040512<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Women with high job strain are 67% more likely to experience a heart attack and 38% more likely to have… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10],"tags":[12,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Stress2.jpg\" "\\"stress\\"")
Women with high job strain are 67% more likely to experience a heart attack and 38% more likely to have a cardiovascular event than their counterparts in low strain jobs<\/strong>, according to a study published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE<\/em>. The researchers, led by Dr. Michelle A. Albert of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, did not find any correlation between job insecurity and long-term cardiovascular disease risk.<\/p>\n