Stress at work link to cancer in doubt

Work pressures are not likely to be an important risk factor in the development of common cancer, and suggests a large, long-term study.

This is due to help move and keep stress and chronic inflammation associated with heart disease and depression. The pressures of work and may also increase the risk of cancer, but I checked a few high-quality studies.

Job stress is defined as the presence of high demands and low control over work. (iStock)

After analyzing data from studies involving participants 116,000 age 17 to 70 in six European countries, occupational health experts concluded work-related stress "may be an important risk factor for colorectal, lung, breast, or prostate.

Investigators focused on the participants self reports of job strain – a high demands and low control over work. Analysis of data on hospital admissions and cases of cancer and deaths from cancer registries.

Situated about five per cent of the participants, 5765 of 116056, a form of cancer over an average follow-up of 12 years.

Job strain was associated with overall risk of cancer after adjusting for age, sex, socio-economic status, body mass index, smoking, alcohol intake, said Katrina from the Finnish Institute Heikkilä "health professional" and other authors in last Thursday's issue of the British medical journal.

Data analysis shows a correlation between job stress and increase the risk of coronary heart disease.

"Reducing stress at work will undoubtedly improve the psychological and physical well-being of individuals, as well as the working population, it is unlikely to have a significant impact on the cancer burden at the level of the population," the authors said.

Research was funded by the Finnish work environment Fund, the Swedish Research Council for working life and social research, the National Research Centre for the working environment of Danish and BUPA and the economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom

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