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Exposure to Psychosocial STRESSors AT WORK was associated with a Higher RISK of Coronary Heart Disease, according to a study published in 2023 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Psychosocial stressors included job strain and effort-reward imbalance.

Coronary Heart Disease definition included heart attacks, angina, acute and chronic coronary syndromes, coronary stenting/angioplasty and coronary artery bypass.

Over 6k white-collar employees (3347 women and 3118 men) with no previous heart problems were followed up between 2000 and 2018, mean age of 45.3.

In men exposure to one of the above STRESSors caused 49% increase of an adjusted risk of Coronary Heart Disease, exposure to both 103% risk increase. In women results were inconclusive.

Stress at work was assessed using questionnaires.

The authors concluded: 'In this prospective cohort study, men exposed to job strain or effort-reward imbalance, separately and in combination, were at increased risk of Coronary Heart Disease. Early interventions on these psychosocial at work in men may be effective prevention strategies to reduce Coronary Heart Disease burden. Among women, further investigation is required.'

Link to the article below:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.122.009700#:~:text=Psychosocial%20stressors%20at%20work%2C%20like,on%20CHD%20risk%20is%20scarce

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Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Dr Bart Olechowski, has private cardiology clinics in Winchester, Farnham and Basingstoke. Dr Bart consultants private patients with chest pains, palpitations, breathlessness, blackouts and fluid retention. He performs private treatments and investigations, which include heart scans and heart monitors.