Open AccessJob stress and hypertension in younger software professionals in India
Author(s) -
Giridhara R Babu,
Tanmay Mahapatra,
Roger Detels
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5278.130848
Subject(s) - autonomy , medicine , blood pressure , stratified sampling , focus group , family medicine , pathology , business , political science , law , marketing
We report the results of a moderately large study (1071) to study the prevalence of hypertension among software professionals in the Indian subcontinent employed at 27 different companies in Bangalore. The focus of our study is on the age gradient of hypertension prevalence and exploring the association of workplace psychosocial predictors of hypertension.