A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health by medical researchers at Laval University in Quebec, Canada, has concluded that stressed-out workers with little social support on the job are at risk from high blood pressure.
The study of more than 8000 professionals carried out between 1991 and 1993, with a follow-up over 7 years later reassessing 84% of the participants to estimate cumulative exposure to job strain.
Both male and females were found to face the health risk, especially if they lacked social support at work; however, the study concluded that job strain was more likely to raise blood pressure in men than women.
An abstract of the article will appear in the August 2006 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
You can view the abstract here: Effects of Job Strain on Blood Pressure: A Prospective Study of White-Collar Workers
