Job Strain and Blood Pressure in Employed Men and Women
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 65 (4) , 558-563
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.psy.0000041473.03828.67
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The extent to which psychosocial stress concurs to raise blood pressure is still uncertain. Here the association between job strain and office blood pressure in a pooled analysis of four population samples from northern Italy is assessed.Keywords
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