|
|
Article: STRESS // Study Finds No Link Between Work Strain, Heart Disease
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
|
Don't blame heart disease on job stress. A team of researchers
from Stanford and Duke universities report that they found no
correlation between heart disease and on-the-job strain.
"We were so surprised by the findings that we re-did the
analysis several different ways," said the study's lead author, Mark
Hlatky of Stanford University School of Medicine. "The findings came
out the same way no matter how we checked."
Researchers have long theorized that work-related stress is a
risk factor for heart disease, the same way that obesity, sedentary
living, high-fat diets and smoking are.
But the scientific data to support that belief have been mixed.
Scandinavian researchers who ...