Low job control is associated with higher diastolic blood pressure in men with mildly elevated blood pressure: the Rosai Karoshi study

Low job control is associated with higher diastolic blood pressure in men with mildly elevated blood pressure: the Rosai Karoshi study

Job strain is a risk factor for hypertension, but it is not fully understood if components of job strain, or job demand or job control per se could be related to blood pressure (BP), and if so, whether the relationship differs between normotension and mildly elevated BP. We examined resting BP, and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Industrial Health 2015, Vol.53(5), pp.480-488
Hauptverfasser: HATTORI, Tomomi, MUNAKATA, Masanori
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Blood Pressure
Diastole
Field Report
Humans
Hypertension
Japan
Job control
Job strain
Job stress
Male
Men
Personnel, Hospital - psychology
Professional Autonomy
Risk factors
Stress, Psychological - physiopathology
Workload
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Zusammenfassung:Job strain is a risk factor for hypertension, but it is not fully understood if components of job strain, or job demand or job control per se could be related to blood pressure (BP), and if so, whether the relationship differs between normotension and mildly elevated BP. We examined resting BP, and job stress components in 113 Japanese male hospital clerks (38.1 ± 4.4 yr). Subjects were classified into normotensive (NT) (
ISSN:0019-8366
1880-8026
DOI:10.2486/indhealth.2014-0205