Job strain and risk indicators for cardiovascular disease in young female nurses.

Abstract

strain appears to mainly affect BP.A recent prospective study confirmed the effects of job strain on BP by showing a significantly higher rise in ambulatory BP across a period of 3 years in men with high job strain (Schnall, Schwartz, Landsbergis, 'V/arren, & Pickering, 1998).However, studies of women more often fail to find a job-strain effect on BP than studies of men, which Schnall et al. (1994) attributed to the lower prevalence of hypertension at the employable age in women.Social support has been found to be associated with lower BP in the majority of srudies (Uchino et al., 1996), but the effects seem to apply only to social support received from farnily and friends rather than job-related social support.Studies on male or combined male and female populations failed to find associations between job strain ànd total cholesterol qTC;