Prospective study of job insecurity and coronary heart disease in US women
Annals of EpidemiologyPublished 3 September 2003
Sunmin Lee, Graham A Colditz, Lisa F Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi
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It is suggested that job insecurity may increase the short-term risk of non-fatal MI in women and the risk of fatal CHD in the short term.
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These data suggest that job insecurity may increase the short-term risk of non-fatal MI in women.
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