From MedPage Today:There's a plausible explanation for how humdrum employees can be worked to death.
Researchers here have found that employees with chronic work stress have more than twice the risk of having metabolic syndrome as their more laid back co-workers.
"A dose-response association exists between exposure to work stress and the metabolic syndrome," reported Tarani Chandola, D.Phil., and colleagues at University College London, today in the online version of the BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal.
"The study provides evidence for the biological plausibility of psychosocial stress mechanisms linking stressors from every day life with heart disease," the investigators wrote.
They looked at data on more than 10,000 Britons who took part in the landmark Whitehall II study, which follows the health of men and women on Her Majesty's civil service.
A previous study using the same dataset by co-authors Michael Marmot, M.D., and Eric Brunner, M.D., found that workers who feel that they are treated justly on the job have a significantly lower risk for coronary artery disease than their fellow employees who feel they can't get a break.
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