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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on February 9, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm641
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Stress at work—an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease?

John Yarnell*

Queen's University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Science, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Mulhouse Building, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BJ, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 28 90632746; Fax: + 44 28 90231907. Email: j.yarnell@qub.ac.uk

This editorial refers to ‘Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms? by T. Chandola et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm584

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In their recent study, Chandola et al. add to the body of evidence linking work stress with the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) in British civil servants, and examine potential mechanisms.1 Similar findings have been reported in cohort studies across Europe; for example, in the Job Stress, Absenteeism and Coronary Heart Disease in Europe study (JACE), a multicentre study in four European countries, in working populations from a broad range of occupational groups and also from the general population.2 In 2004, a review showed that fewer than half of the 17 longitudinal studies and eight cross-sectional studies included showed a significant association . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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