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Men exposed to stressful working conditions who also felt that they put forth high effort but received low reward had twice the risk of heart disease compared to men who were free of those psychosocial stressors.
Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. according to American Heart Association statistics.
The impact of job strain and effort-reward imbalance combined was similar to the magnitude of the impact of obesity on risk of coronary heart disease.
Researchers measured job strain and effort-reward imbalance with results from proven questionnaires and retrieved heart disease information using established health databases.
Study limitation is that the researchers studied men and women in white-collar jobs primarily in Quebec , Canada , and the results might not fully represent the diversity of the American working population.
However, the study findings may be relevant to workers in the United States and other high-income countries.
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