Do early life exposures explain associations in mid-adulthood between workplace factors and risk factors for cardiovascular disease? | Zendy

Claudia Thomas | Zendy; Chris Power | Zendy

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Do early life exposures explain associations in mid-adulthood between workplace factors and risk factors for cardiovascular disease?

Author(s) -

Claudia Thomas,

Chris Power

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyp365

Subject(s) - disease , medicine , environmental health , risk factor , gerontology , demography , sociology

Workplace factors (night work, long working hours, psychosocial work stress) have been reported to be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We investigated whether (i) workplace factors are associated with CVD risk factors independently of each other, (ii) workplace factors interact, thereby modifying associations and (iii) associations are explained by early life exposures.

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